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@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@ You can use Amdfan to monitor your AMD video cards using the `monitor` flag. Thi
 
 ## Configuration
 
-Running `amdfan print-default --configuration` will dump out the default configuration that would get generated for `/etc/amdfan.yml` when you first run it as a service. Commented 
+Running `amdfan print-default --configuration` will dump out the default configuration that would get generated for `/etc/amdfan.yml` when you first run it as a service. If a value is not specified, it will use a default value if possible.
 
+The following config is probably a reasonable setup:
 ``` bash
 speed_matrix:
 - [4, 4]
@@ -87,12 +88,13 @@ frequency: 5
 # cards:
 # - card0
 ```
-You can use this to generate your configuration by doing `amdfan print-default --configuration | sudo tee amdfan.yml`, which you can manually edit.
 
-`speed_matrix` (required): a list of thresholds [temperature, speed] which are interpolated to calculate the fan speed.
-`threshold` (default `0`): allows for some leeway in temperatures, as to not constantly change fan speed
-`frequency` (default `5`): how often (in seconds) we wait between updates
-`cards` (required): a list of card names (from `/sys/class/drm`) which we want to control.
+If a configuration file is not found, a default one will be generated. If you want to make any changes to the default config before running it the daemon first, run `amdfan print-default --configuration | sudo tee /etc/amdfan.yml` and do your changes from there.
+
+- `speed_matrix` (required): a list of thresholds `[temperature, speed]` which are interpolated to calculate the fan speed.
+- `threshold` (default `0`): allows for some leeway in temperatures, as to not constantly change fan speed
+- `frequency` (default `5`): how often (in seconds) we wait between updates
+- `cards` (required): a list of card names (from `/sys/class/drm`) which we want to control.
 
 Note! You can send a SIGHUP signal to the daemon to request a reload of the config without restarting the whole service.