Battery and Fan Noise Management on ASUS G14 (Omarchy Setup)

[SatoriSec]

Hi, this might be my specific issue—please feel free to close it if it’s not relevant.

I recently purchased an ASUS G14 gaming laptop and installed Omarchy. It worked like a charm—honestly, it’s the perfect setup in many ways.

However, I ran into an issue with battery life and constant fan noise.
I know gaming laptops generally have poor battery life, but I tried several CPU and fan management tools (such as asusctl and other power management utilities). These helped a little, but I’m not sure if I configured them correctly. Even during light usage, the fans often run at full speed, which is quite noisy.

For comparison:

When I installed Garuda Linux (Hyprland version), battery usage and fan noise were much better—quiet most of the time, with no overheating.

However, that setup had a problem with external monitors (e.g., Apple Studio Display). I had to install proprietary NVIDIA drivers and follow many command-line steps to get it working. It works now, but I’m worried that future Garuda updates might break the configuration.

Since DHH is committed to supporting Omarchy, I reinstalled it and want to invest more time in making it work as my daily driver.

If there’s any guidance, documentation, or recommended configuration for managing ASUS fan speed and battery life within Omarchy, it would be extremely helpful.

Thanks again for the great initiative!

[maxguzenski]

I have a asus zenbook s16, now with no fan/battery issue after lastest kernel/system updates. But in the beginning, I had a similar problem; I used auto-cpufreq with good results.

https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq

I think, but I’m not sure, that Garuda Linux uses it too.

[SatoriSec]

Thank you. yes, that's on of the script i used i think it helped. will good to have that is the Omarchy by default if that is the right solution.

[bagguettiesonmywrist]

Have you tried setting the power profile to balanced? If plugged in when setting up it defaults to performance which uses significantly more power.

SUPER ALT SPACE > Setup > Power Profiles

[ChrisDrit]

This helped quite a bit for me on my Framework 13 laptop. Toggle between those 3 power modes really helped with the temp an whether the fan would come on or not. Thanks for calling this out!

[paul-fornage]

Check out https://asus-linux.org/. It seems early development, but it ports the ROG control center to Linux (Hopefully with less CVEs than the original).