General Recommendations

General recommendations for the best experience on ASUS ROG laptops

By Seom88 April 8, 2026

These recommendations apply to any distribution as long as you use the power profile daemon (ppd) or manually configure the settings (Asusctl was developed with PPD in mind).

Recommended desktop environment

This rule applies to almost the entire project, but rogcc runs on Wayland; X11 is not supported. That is why KDE Plasma and GNOME are recommended for the best and most complete experience.

Note: Some integrated GPUs, such as AMD (Radeon 680M in my case), can cause the desktop to freeze. In this case, we recommend KDE Plasma, as it usually restarts the compositor successfully, so you won't need to force-restart your laptop.

Improve battery on AMD Laptops

Read docs for more details: PPD Documentation

If you followed any guide, you should have daemon power profiles, which have two functions that are disabled by default: Panel power savings and AMDGPU Dynamic power management. These are dedicated to AMD iGPU, and you must follow these steps:

Panel power savings

powerprofilesctl configure-action amdgpu_panel_power --enable

Check if it is working:

cat /sys/class/drm/card2/card2-eDP-2/amdgpu/panel_power_savings

This option should be above 0, It just dims the screen a little to save battery life, but it depends on your screen model.

AMDGPU Dynamic power management

powerprofilesctl configure-action amdgpu_dpm --enable

Check if it is working:

cat /sys/class/drm/card2/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level

This option is the most important, because in battery it needs to say low. With this, you should get a battery that is very close to Windows.

Note: 2 is the number of your iGPU, this can be different on your device.

Audio powersaving

You can enable audio powersaving features:

/etc/modprobe.d/audio.conf

# enable audio power savings
options snd_hda_intel power_save=1

WiFi powersaving

If you have a wireless card that is managed by the iwlwifi you can enable powersave for that too:

/etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf

options iwlwifi power_save=1

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