KDE allows tweaking power profile on Fedora, but not Arch

Framework Laptop 16 Linux
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Everything including BIOS is up to date and I’m running out of time so I’m skipping the basic info, if it’s proven to be needed I’ll add them back later.

Anyway, I’ve been running Fedora ever since I got my Framework 16, and it allows me to switch between 3 power profiles on the battery icon.
Just now, I installed Windows on the 2280 NVMe drive and wiped Fedora, and I decided for no good reason, I installed Arch Linux instead of Fedora on the 2230 drive.
Everything pretty much went as expected, which is pain and reading. The thing I wasn’t expected is KDE now tells me Power Profile is not supported on this machine. I thought it’s handled by the Linux kernel?

Sorry that I’m in a hurry but still want to post, this is all the information for now.
Any replies is appreciated.

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I used to have a similar issue on Gentoo. I strongly suspect Plasma depends on the right dbus services to be advertised.
Install either thermald or power-profiles-daemon and ensure its running.

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Yeah you need to install power devil and power profiles daemon.

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Yeah this does it. Note that powerdevil is one word for pacman.

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The 13 arch wiki page talks about installing power profiles daemon, not sure if the 16 page does. But you might find other useful things there: