I’m thinking about buying a small budget notebook with a touchscreen for university and running a resource friendly Linux distro on it to extend battery life (and also bc windows and Google suck ass). since I’m pretty much out of my depth here: does that make sense at all? are there noob friendly Linux distros available that support touch screen/ flippable notebooks. and if so, would it also make sense to buy a lenovo chromebook rather than a windows 11 based notebook? thanks in advance!
hmmm. So you’d recommend just working with windows 11 then? cuz basically battery life is what’s most important to me. can’t afford new stuff, especially not a MacBook.
There are various tools to optimize battery life on linux, most prominently:
But at the end of the day it depends on various factors, so it will be a tinkering process.
Yeah. If you pay a few dollars for a product key from one of those grey market sites (legally dubious but there’s no danger to you) you can get Windows 11 IoT LTSC which is a version of Windows without all the crap that people complain about.
I’ve been running that on my desktop for a while and the only problem I ran into was that Winget doesn’t work by default and it is quite a pain to get working (I did manage in the end but it involved downloading some core windows file from a random windows help website which isn’t ideal).
The only reason I needed it is because OCaml is only distributed on Windows with Winget. I think the Windows Store also probably doesn’t work (never tried) but that’s a bonus. Same for the Windows game bar, whatever that crap is. (Steam and games themselves work fine.)
Other than that it’s rock solid and a nice improvement over Windows 10. It can even install printers quickly and reliably which I thought I would never see in my lifetime (Linux still can’t).
thank you! your reply sent me down another rabbit hole and gave me something to think about.