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I don't think you're going to find a magic program that will just make your computer run faster. If there is a lot of CPU usage, something is using it. try to find out what that is, and either stop the process, wait for it to finish, etc.
if you have a lot of maintenance tasks that run and take up resources, maybe try and reschedule them for other times of the day?
No no I'm sorry, you guys seem to be misinterpreting things a bit, I'm not really looking for MORE performance because there are obvious hardware limitations, I'm just looking for tools that help optimize what I have to work with. To ensure things are balanced and smooth and running within normal bounds. Trying to enhance I guess health and overall usability. Make sure things aren't running out of control or consuming more resources than they should. I mean I can look at htop and understand some things, but I by no means know how to use that info to manually configuring things myself, ya know? Just like the many monitoring tools out there, but ones that automatically make adjustments accorsingly, so daemon type programs I guess?
I get what you're saying, but I don't think you're going to find anything like that. Linux doesn't really need some maintenance app running on top of it to keep it healthy. most of the programs that claim to do the same on windows,. android, etc. don't really do anything helpful either. If you've got a specific issue that keeps popping up, perhaps we can solve it.
Well this is good to know. Even programs such as tlp? It seems like everybody and their mother recommend that one lol