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Best Distro for Laptops? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Jean_Lurk_Picard@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] demesisx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

🧌 NixOS 🧌

I use xmonad/polybar/rofi/dunst with Home Manager and flakes. You could just use my whole config and have it up and running in a day, deleting lines and adding others. Fork it and modify it to meet your preferences (as I did when I forked this amazingly slick config). I even made a custom typeface to add my favorite crypto logos to my Polybar.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

YESS!!! I just switched from vanillaOS to Nix and its been a learning curve but if you screw up you just go back a generation and rebuild. And I haven't had any package manager BS like ubuntu.

[–] evirac@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this really makes nixOs so good because I can just make others do the hard work of configing it for me and use it 😂

[–] demesisx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Unless you want to run a stake pool on Cardano, you’d have to fork and modify my config.

[–] Jean_Lurk_Picard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow these seems really cool, good job and thanks for your contribution! I am gonna check it out!

[–] demesisx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Glad to help! I’m merely standing on the shoulders of the giants before me.

[–] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Also running NixOS on my laptop. It took longer to configure than most distros since I had to learn more, but now that I understand the ecosystem better I feel like I can tinker with it so much faster that I'd be able to otherwise.

Definitely a distro for more developer types who are fine figuring stuff out in their own, but if it works for you then it really works for you.

[–] DataDreadnought@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

+1 for NixOS

I'm a distro hopping junkie and NixOS has been keeping me on their OS for 8 months now. Highly recommend it.