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@macberg yeah GNOME comes with the power-profiles-daemon, which is pretty powerful and advanced as far as linux power management goes. It puts a UI element in the GNOME quick settings menu that lets you choose between Performance, Balanced, and Power Saving modes. In Power Saving it caps the CPU at a certain low power speed and then aggressively throttles it down on lighter loads as well. In balanced mode, it uses the full range of the CPU's clock speed, but changes it very often and responsively according to load to try to minimize the amount of time you spend at high clock speeds. It also disables turbo. In performance, it basically just pins the clock speed to max and then turbos when the load is high.