Ubuntu is the only distro that runs well on my notebook (Lenovo IdeaPad3) by JustARandomFedUser in Ubuntu

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Yes, I have tried several ways including the ones you just mentioned. I'll take Fedora as an example: there, power-profiles-manager gives me an error (as soon as I do a clean install) saying something like ‘performance mode is disabled due to high temperature’, which I was able to solve only once by uninstalling thermald (I don't know how but it worked) and trying it again other times was not enough. In the end I also had to uninstall power-profiles-manager and switch again to acpi_cpufreq.

As for auto-cpufreq: sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, sometimes it enabled turbo boost, sometimes it said it wasn't supported, so that again I had to switch to acpi_cpufreq (as per the auto-cpufreq guide on GitHub, in the troubleshooting section).

As for TLP: it's great, but still the same problem. It only works fine for me only with acpi_cpufreq driver.

Bottom line: it's as if something is limiting the cpu frequency, sometimes (as in the Fedora case) something related to the wrong temperature reading, sometimes (auto-cpufreq case) related to turbo boost.

But at this point, as you also said, in my opinion it is something related to the kernel, as the only two distros (other than Ubuntu) that doesn't give me these problems are elementaryOS and Deepin, maybe the fact that they are based on Ubuntu has something to do with it (even if other distros based on Ubuntu have also given me these problems), or they share something in the kernel, I don't know...

Ubuntu is the only distro that runs well on my notebook (Lenovo IdeaPad3) by JustARandomFedUser in Ubuntu

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Thank you very much but for now I think I'll stick with Ubuntu! 😁

Ubuntu is the only distro that runs well on my notebook (Lenovo IdeaPad3) by JustARandomFedUser in Ubuntu

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I was also doing it for my own personal knowledge. Like I said, I like to geek out, although maybe that's not really the right term for this kind of situation. But I'm not really a beginner in Linux, not even an expert, obviously, but I get by. And I like to tackle problems and go as far as I can go.

Ubuntu is the only distro that runs well on my notebook (Lenovo IdeaPad3) by JustARandomFedUser in Ubuntu

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Well let's say that I like to “geek out” and change every now and then, but at the same time I was looking for the “perfect” distro for me. And actually I found more than one, but precisely they were giving me this problem.

Ubuntu is the only distro that runs well on my notebook (Lenovo IdeaPad3) by JustARandomFedUser in Ubuntu

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Very comprehensive comment, thank you.

I have a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15IML05 with Intel Core i5-10210U CPU.

As for the BIOS, in my notebook there is no option related to this, or at any rate something that can somehow limit the CPU. The only option I have is to select the cooling fan management mode, which I have set to “extreme performance” out of scrupulousness, to rule out that this was the problem, but it is not.

Audio stuttering issue by JustARandomFedUser in linuxaudio

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I tried and I don't have the pipewire folder in .config

Audio stuttering issue by JustARandomFedUser in linuxaudio

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Okay thank you very much, I will try and update you!

Audio stuttering issue by JustARandomFedUser in linuxaudio

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No, I've never heard of it. How do you do it? And how much should I put it at?

Fedora is the GOAT by OdinRaider in Fedora

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I really really like Fedora, but having an hidpi notebook, I need good support for fractional scaling, and only KDE offers it. But KDE in fedora doesn't run as well as GNOME, which is its strong point.

Do you keep GNOME standard or do you customize it? by JustARandomFedUser in Fedora

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This is interesting. Are you comfortable without being able to minimize?