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Best Distro for Laptops? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to know your opinions on the best distro that is convenient for laptops. Main reason is I want to really optimize hardware performance and more specifically battery life for my University classes. I also want to try a tiling manager as they seem perfect for laptops.

Things of note:

Convenience/Performance is key
My laptop is a Thinkpad E15 w/ 16 gb ram
On my home desktop I run Archlinux w/ Open box & no DE (I've been using Arch for years but haven't used another distro since Ubuntu in highschool)
I will likely dual boot with Windows 10 for Office
I want to run a tiling manager
I don't video game
I wont be using a mouse
I don't necessarily want to use Arch, want to try something new that I don't have to rely on AUR updates for certain software

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

pop os?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pop!OS is great and ticks most of your boxes. Although, you'll likely have to read into the battery optimization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've had a pretty good time with PopOS. GNOME is a bit rough at times (handling window sizes, font size changes, monitor layout updates) and I only had DisplayLink driver issues, which is probably trivial for most personal users nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pop!OS is great and ticks most of your boxes. Although, you'll likely have to read into the battery optimization.