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
  • demesisx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    🧌 NixOS 🧌

    I use xmonad/polybar/rofi/dunst and 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 mine to your preferences. I even made a custom typeface to add my favorite crypto logos to my Polybar.

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      1 year ago

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

    • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

    • DataDreadnought@lemmy.one
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      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.

    • Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.

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        1 year ago

        I absolutely adore it. Today, I added a simple bash script to one of my config options that runs just before my nix flake update command that gets the sha256 hash for the latest release of the Cardano-node then writes that hash into my flake.nix file using sed. Then, when I do a flake update that little hash update (that I used to manually do) is also built in.