[prmoustache]

>Yet, it makes me feel like the situation is not changing that much on Linux for laptops: most of this should be more automated IMO.

This is an archlinux user. You cannot automate and generalize personal opinions and settings. For 1 user that wants his screen to go down to 60Hz on battery you might have 5 who will say they can't use a computer with such a low refresh rate.

A user who wants something that "just work" would have installed his computer with the latest Fedora, Mint or Ubuntu and would be using the default desktop with default sane defaults and terminal and would have been perfectly happy with it.

[jdecourval]

Exactly. This guide makes the computer my own. I'm always astonished when I see ArchLinux users openly praising the distro. It's great... but for people like me. I especially wouldn't recommend using it on a laptop, since skipping a few steps could mean an awful battery life, while other distro would be decent by default.

Having said that, my guide does use some advanced or very recent tricks that are not done by most distros. To which extent all of that help? Hard to say, but we are clearly in the premature, but fun, optimizations territory.