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Best Distro for Laptops? (self.linux)

submitted 2 years ago by Jean_Lurk_Picard 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] 1 points 2 years ago

fedora or nobara with gnome de and that's it. I don't think you need to look for any other distro. You can if you want to but you won't go wrong with this. I tried linux mint, and I had two problems in it. a) no 1 to 1 gestures b) some packages were outdated. Then there's arch and opensuse where in both cases I got black screen with nvidia drivers.

fedora is the balance between stability and newer packages. And It's the distro I've been using for 3 years now. I sometimes try this and that but in the end, jump back to fedora always. If yast was a bit more user friendly, I'd consider opensuse