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Uninstall Armory Crate and use G-Helper, use it's update tab to make sure you have all platform/driver updates, and to confirm you have the GPU preferences, and CPU+GPU fan curves set as you'd expect (or can reset them to factory defaults). I suspect you'll have a better time.

Even if you, the reader, are not having issues and have an ASUS gaming laptop, check out G-Helper. It's a huge QoL upgrade. (It's one of those tools that causes people to write the n+1th "I normally hate third party tools but G-helper is actually amazing" etc posts).

>>predic+(OP)
Thank you for the ideas. I won't need them anymore since Linux is now strictly better than Windows for me. But perhaps that info will be useful for someone else.

>>darthr+Ro2
Awesome! I'm basically there too. Honestly I mostly keep Windows just to be able to stay on top of firmware updates (fwupdmgr can't take over the world fast enough!).

For Linux ASUS Gamers, y'all likely already know, but supergfxctl, asusd/asusctl/rog-control-center are your friends!