Why I love auto-cpufreq
Background Back when I first started daily-driving Linux, I was on an Arch based distro. After noticing the sub-par battery life, I started to look around and found this Arch wiki page about different CPU scaling softwares. All of the other ones sounded too complicated but auto-cpufreq stuck out as being simplistic and exactly what I was looking for. Other tools such as TLP were just offering more than what I needed....