For years, the ASUS ROG and TUF laptops built to run fastest have been the ones held back most: by heavy control centres, background services and telemetry quietly spending the framerates, thermals and battery you already paid for.
Arsenal began as a refusal. An ASUS laptop should answer to the person using it, and the software governing it should be as lean as the silicon under the keys. No telemetry, no background noise, nothing running that you did not ask for. Only precise, respectful control for people who want to understand their own hardware.
This is an early chapter. There is more ahead: wider ASUS device coverage, finer work on fan behaviour, a deeper companion in your pocket. Arsenal gets better every time someone tells me what is missing.
Built on G-Helper
I should be precise about this, because “inspired by” would not be honest.
Arsenal's entire hardware layer is
G‑Helper,
by @seerge —
every line that talks to ACPI, the fans, the GPU, the panel, the battery and the lighting.
What I built is the interface around it, the phone companion, and the way it updates itself.
Arsenal is free software under the GPL because G‑Helper is, and that is exactly as it
should be.
If Arsenal is useful to you, go and use
G‑Helper
too, and support the person who made the hard part possible. Full details on the
licence page.