So, this Laptop Mode Tools will help you get extended battery life as well as reduce overheating to an extent. You might be wondering why am I talking about extending battery life when we are aiming to reduce overheating? The reason is that running your laptop in power save mode does reduces overheating. Laptop Mode Tools is a laptop power saving package for Linux systems that allows you to configure it in several ways to get more battery life. You can read about how to enable intel p_state here. As per the users’ feedback, thermald and TLP do not conflict with each other so you can install both of these together. It should be available in repositories of other distributions as well. Thermald is available in Ubuntu repositories and can be installed using the following command: sudo apt-get install thermald thermaldĭeveloped by Intel’s Open Source division, Linux Thermal Daemon ( thermald) is a tool that monitors and controls the CPU temperature, resulting in reduced overheating.

Sudo add-apt-repository -remove ppa:linrunner/tlp 2. To uninstall TLP, you can use the following commands: sudo apt-get remove tlp You may start to feel the difference in few hours or in couple of days. Restart your system after installation. Check this page for installation instructions in other Linux distributions. If you are using ThinkPads, you require an additional step: sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms To install TLP in Ubuntu based Linux distributions, use the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp I have always included installation of TLP in top things to do after installing Ubuntu for its simplicity and usefulness. It will be auto-start at each boot and keep on running in background.

You just need to install TLP and restart your system. It’s a daemon that is pre-configured to reduce overheating as well as improve battery life. TLP is my favorite power management tool in Linux. Tools you can install to prevent overheating of laptops in Linux 1. I have used them with Ubuntu installed on an Acer laptop. It should also work for all kind of laptops i.e. The tips stated here should be applicable to all Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Arch Linux, elementary OS etc.

We will see various tools that you can use to control CPU temperature, monitor apps and their effects on hardware temperature, daemons which you can install and forget along with best practices you should follow to reduce overheating of laptops.

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