Guys, if I don’t need snapshots would be any reason to use btrfs file system?

its just my cores arent really meant for efficiency

Did you verify that dedicated graphics is disabled and it only uses the integrated graphics?

yeah I use supergfxctl to disable dedicated graphics

sudo powertop –auto-tune
brillo -S 70
asusctl -P Quiet
asusctl -k low

I did try —auto-tune before didn’t really do much

can you explain what brillo does?

screen brightness 70%

gotcha

I’m at less than 50% most of the time

better

actually by disabling dedicated graphics, you increase CPU usage

well I only watch youtube vid on iGPU so its more efficient than a 3050ti

Does your laptop support checking power usage, like in the plasma energy consumption gui for example. Would be interesting to see how many Watts it’s pulling when screen on/off etc etc to see how much everything consumes

while on dgpu my laptop consumes over 30W

How do I verify this?

I use battop and powertop to get energy stats

oh and if I use powersaver governor my laptop lasts for 6 Hours

only issue is the performance is extremely slow

I was on ACPI scaling governor before, then I switched to AMD_pstate, which resulted in CPU being stuck on 1.4Ghz, to now being able to drop as low as 400Mhz.

you better off to use a macbook air at this crippled performance level

Guys, if I don’t need snapshots would be any reason to use btrfs file system?

Transparent compression

I searched about it I’m not sure if I got it right. Does that mean it will compress without needing to decompress to read the data inside?

No. It just does so transparently so the system doesn’t know about it

Doesnt that introduce a potential bottleneck with large files?

If a game has dumb developers and they ship 70GB of uncompressed textures, suddenly it’s taking 40GB with no noticeable performance drop

Not really from my experience

I’m jsut thinking of games like Guild Wars 1 where all the data is in one big .dat file

That’s cool. Is it on by default or requires to pass an option to use it?

you need to mount it with appropriate flags

I’d recommend zstd

speaking of files, how do i go about removing /dev/sda1 and extending my /dev/sda2 (ext4, Arch linux root partition) on the free space? i am currently booted into archiso and am looking at cfdisk, /dev/sda1 is not important in any way and is not in fstab.

and yes, the partition i want to remove is BEFORE the partition i want to extend

So compress=zstd flag for mount option is gonna do the trick and no extra option for transport compression like transport=true or anything?

What network manager are you using?