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
  • evirac@vlemmy.net
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    1 year 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 a) no 1 to 1 gestures b) some packages were outdated.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