Any of you Linux Mint users have auto-spufreq installed and could lend some pointers on how to work snapd on Mint? I’m not currently using Mint.
Ping to a few others as well, might be some useful information.
This seems straight forward to me, but I can’t test it currently.
https://snapcraft.io/install/auto-cpufreq/mint
I don’t think you will even need to do anything on the command line, you should be able to:
“To install snap from the Software Manager application, search for snapd and click Install.”
After that, auto-cpufreq should appear in the software manager. But let’s wait and see what others have to say about it.
Close open stuff
Open terminal
sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
sudo reboot
sudo snap install auto-cpufreq
Done.
daemon needs this command to be automatic at every boot.
sudo auto-cpufreq - -install
I don’t have either installed. For me I don’t see a need for them.
Mint 20.x and above blocks snapd by default. Apparently there is a serious security and back door issue they refuse to send out boxed with newer Mint versions. And I do not blame them, I would not want it if that is the case. But you can edit some lines that will allow snapd and packages to install.
What I need my friend is a good thermald configuration set up. We are in the desert and we get hot here. And I could boost my cooling fan in 18.3 by re-configuring thermald. But in this 20.X they screwed up the ability to reconfigure it. It killed me this last summer because I didn’t want to goof something thermald is using as a default reference.
As for power settings, they all seem to work fine for me on my laptop. Until the battery started to get weak. It will not tell you, but it just starts to run out faster than it should. Mine is way bad, and it will tell me I have an hour and a half left. 15 minutes later it is dead and gone... lol
It is not accurate, and look towards the battery before you go after the settings.