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Explaining on the readme what every power profile do

Based on this info:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/power-profiles-daemon/-/blob/main/src/ppd-profile.h

  • @PPD_PROFILE_POWER_SAVER: "power-saver", the battery saving profile
  • @PPD_PROFILE_BALANCED: balanced, the default profile
  • @PPD_PROFILE_PERFORMANCE: as fast as possible, a profile that does
  • not care about noise or battery consumption, only available
  • on some systems.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling#Scaling_governors:

  • performance: Run the CPU at the maximum frequency, obtained from /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq.
  • powersave: Run the CPU at the minimum frequency, obtained from /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq.
  • userspace: Run the CPU at user specified frequencies, configurable via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed.
  • ondemand: Scales the frequency dynamically according to current load. Jumps to the highest frequency and then possibly back off as the idle time increases.
  • conservative: Scales the frequency dynamically according to current load. Scales the frequency more gradually than ondemand.
  • schedutil: Scheduler-driven CPU frequency selection.

The readme could explain something like this:

  • Power Saver: Performance limited to save power.
  • Balanced: Performance boosted when needed.
  • Performance: Performance always at maximum.

Otherwise the difference between "balanced" and "performance" is ambiguous, and nobody knows what they mean.