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We’re always impressed by Colorado-based System76 and its contributions to Linux. Not only does it make glorious hardware and a fine desktop environment, it’s also put in a lot of effort tweaking behind-the-scenes kernel settings. This work has culminated in the System76 Scheduler service, which tweaks the kernel’s CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) settings for lower latency when on AC power. You don’t even have to be using Pop!_OS to take advantage of it, but if you are it’ll automatically prioritise foreground applications, as well as common desktop processes such as Gnome Shell and Kwin.

Garuda Linux is making a lot of headlines lately. The slick, eye-candy heavy, Arch-based distro includes a couple of daemons that ought to improve responsiveness. First there’s Ananicy (ANother Auto NICe daemon), which automatically renices (gives greater affinity) processes. The idea