Hey everyone! I'm running Nobara Gnome (which is based on Fedora) on my desktop setup, and I've been curious about whether I need the `power-profiles-daemon` service. I've noticed that during boot, it seems to take a pretty long time, around 15-20 seconds, but I found out that it's actually just when it starts at boot and only takes 34ms to actually run. Since I don't really care about power consumption and always set it to powerful mode, can I safely disable or remove this service without running into issues? Also, would doing that affect my system's performance in any way? Here are my specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4080, Motherboard: Aorus B650 elite ax.
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You might want to check out some resources on managing services in Linux. It could give you more insight into what’s going on with your system. Just a heads up—if you ever try out new configurations, remember to back things up and maybe even use a VM to experiment safely. That's how I learned a lot!
It's strange that it's taking 15-20 seconds for you. My setup has the `power-profiles-daemon` starting up in just 108ms! You can definitely remove this service by running `systemctl mask power-profiles-daemon.service`. This will effectively disable it, but if you ever change your mind, you can use `unmask` to revert it. Since you don't care about power consumption, you should be just fine without it!
15-20 seconds just for that service? That's wild! My laptop, which is old, takes about 30-40 seconds to boot completely! You should definitely check if there's something else causing the delay. Disabling it might just help streamline your startup time overall!
Yeah, I don't understand how one service could cause that much delay. If the whole PC takes 30 seconds and this service is dragging it down, you might want to troubleshoot further.
Thanks for the tip! I realized I was looking at the wrong numbers before; it only takes 34ms to run. I’ll keep that in mind if I decide to disable it!