People was using Weston with Intel Laptops as it used less power many years ago. Samsung was using Fedora+Wayland for Watches and TV’s i was thinking Arch or Fedora for a new AMD laptop?

  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    First, that your laptop is AMD does not matter at all for choosing a distro or a DE. There are no distros which are optimized for certain CPUs, unless you are compiling the kernel yourself. I don’t understand why you’re repeating it’s an AMD laptop.

    But anyway, the less processes opened and the less power hungry those processes are, the better for your battery. So go for something minimalistic, Arch might be a good option but depends on your technical knowledge.

    Alpine is probably king for a distro that’s lightweight, the problem is that it isn’t really thought for desktop usage, but it’s an option if you wanted to.

    I’d recommend to just install your favorite distro and then run “systemctl status” and disable every background service that you won’t need. I recommend disabling Bluetooth if you aren’t going to use it.

    After that, install one of those programs that limit your CPU clock by default, since I doubt most of the time you will be needing maximum power anyway. If you aren’t going to need the maximum speed of your CPU and want to get the maximum battery life out of your laptop, underclocking the CPU in the BIOS is a great option.