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
  • @coolmojo
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    11 year ago

    If you are familiar with Arch, you can use arch on your laptop. You can consider Garuda Linux which is arch with a graphical installer, preconfigured DE and WM plus confirmation and maintenance tools. They also have a PacMan repository called Chaotic-AUR: a repository with huge selection of precompiled air packages. They have - among others - Wayfire, Sway, i3WM and Qtile editions. You can try them out from a live usb and see what you think.