Turn off Bluetooth by default

I just completed a fresh install of 17.04 today, and it appears that you are correct, TLP is no longer included.

I saw no reason to install TLP at this point, so I disabled the Bluetooth service by running the following command in the terminal.

sudo systemctl disable bluetooth

This will survive a reboot, and the blueman applet did not load on startup.

To check if Bluetooth is enabled run

systemctl is-enabled bluetooth

To enable Bluetooth again run

sudo systemctl enable bluetooth

After disabling Bluetooth as shown above, the service turns off on the next reboot, or on the next stop event. The same goes for enabling Bluetooth again.

To manually stop Bluetooth run

systemctl stop bluetooth

EDIT May 15, 2017

The above method does not work on Ubuntu Mate 16.04 unless you also disable TLP.

sudo systemctl disable tlp

However if your using a laptop you may not want to do this due to power saving considerations.

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