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It's very good - in some cases better than Windows. I have a MSI gaming laptop. The battery lifedin longer on linux compared to Windows.
With custom scripts you can control fan speed. However... I have a intel/nVidia card on KDE with wayland and it is hell. Nothing works as expected, so I can't tell about gaming in itself.
For other tasks, it works really well.
I'm lucky that I don't need long battery life, I'm always plugged in for gaming, so I have set the Nvidia GPU in Dedicated mode. I suspect not having both (optimus or prime) have eliminated a lot of issues, it works well with Wayland and Plasma and games like BG3 and Guildwars2 under Proton+Xwayland.
Actually it's not too bad on the battery when not gaming, despite always running NVidia.
I have to ask... on KDE wayland, how do you set it to dedicated mode ?
More battery life means the cpu is power limited compared to windows + armoury crate performance mode?
Or that the CPU is not doing needles add servings.
No, I have also found that my processes run faster on Linux than on Windows. I don't know what is armoury crate but from the way you're talking about it it manages CPU modes.
Whatever you do in Windows, you can in Linux (almost). But it is sometimes harder, sometimes simpler.
It probably means that there are fewer useless background processes eating up your battery
If you're asking about gaming performance on Linux, then the answer is that it depends on the game. Some run better on Linux (Cyberpunk made headlines recently) and some run worse.
Edit: ah, you're asking any Armory Crate because they have the performance modes. That's just overclocking. You can do that on Linux, but it won't be as easy as using Armory Crate.