Hello. I’m planning on getting a little Lenovo ideapad duet 3i for general media creation n consumption. Emphasis on being able to sketch.

I want to replace win 11 s (default os) on it with a Linux distro. I heard that gallium is nice n lightweight (designed to run on Chromebooks, …which is also related cus the other computer consideration is an ideapad duo Chromebook… and these computers are very comparable.) Are there any other lightweight distros I should consider? I’m also worried about being able to run windows programs like CSP (main drawing program). N games n other things. Also would this mess up the pen-touch drivers/systems?

(Note: I know little about computer systems. And this is my first time actually setting up Linux)

  • @[email protected]English
    9•1 year ago

    I don’t know what this ‘gallium’ is. But your computer has a powerful x86 cpu, so any regular distro will work just fine.

    Becuse it is your first distro, it should be something well documented (large user base) and stable.

    I recommend you to format your biggest usb stick with Ventoy2Disk and it’ll be the last time you’ll ever format.

    With Ventoy you can try any distro in Live mode without installing anything in your computer before you’re found your favorite.

    Try at least Pop_OS! and LMDE5 (LMDE6 is released within a few weeks) over regular Mint and here’s why: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=374128

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        It boots faster and is slightly more responsive as the link suggests. Neofetch has different logo.

        It doesn’t have the driver manager so LMDE doesn’t play well with Nvidia gpus.

    • @krizsteOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I see, I’ll try those. Debian flavour mint gets multiple reccs, hm. I knew about mint being newbie friendly. Didn’t know it has diff flavours.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        “Regular” Mint = Ubuntu backend (Nvidia support) Mint Debian = More lightweight, but only Cinnamon and bad option for Nvidia gpu

        • @krizsteOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          curious if ubuntus slowness is related to the graphics. hm. i found someone running csp on mint cinnamon using playoblinux. so thheres some more points to mint, haha.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•1 year ago

            I have no clue. I bet Ubuntu just ships with more processes running. Stsrting from booy and continuing during the use.