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!

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Yeah I guess it probably depends if you get lucky and have a laptop that happens to have a load of effort put into power management optimisation put in by some random Linux dev. It would be really helpful if there were benchmarks for this stuff. Super tedious and expensive to do though I guess. Maybe we could crowd source it somehow.