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[–] million@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What is clear doing that is unique and what are the trade offs?

Why isn’t this mainstreamed into other distros?

[–] Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

The mentioned performance governor runs the CPU permanently at maximum frequency, which is obviously bad on battery powered devices and on devices with lacking thermal headroom. I think it might cause problems in virtualized environments as well but I'm not sure about that.

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