Hello. I’m planning on getting a little Lenovo ideapad duet 3i for general media creation n consumption. Emphasis on being able to sketch.

I want to replace win 11 s (default os) on it with a Linux distro. I heard that gallium is nice n lightweight (designed to run on Chromebooks, …which is also related cus the other computer consideration is an ideapad duo Chromebook… and these computers are very comparable.) Are there any other lightweight distros I should consider? I’m also worried about being able to run windows programs like CSP (main drawing program). N games n other things. Also would this mess up the pen-touch drivers/systems?

(Note: I know little about computer systems. And this is my first time actually setting up Linux)

  • Nuuskis9@feddit.nlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I don’t know what this ‘gallium’ is. But your computer has a powerful x86 cpu, so any regular distro will work just fine.

    Becuse it is your first distro, it should be something well documented (large user base) and stable.

    I recommend you to format your biggest usb stick with Ventoy2Disk and it’ll be the last time you’ll ever format.

    With Ventoy you can try any distro in Live mode without installing anything in your computer before you’re found your favorite.

    Try at least Pop_OS! and LMDE5 (LMDE6 is released within a few weeks) over regular Mint and here’s why: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=374128

      • Nuuskis9@feddit.nlEnglish
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        3 years ago

        It boots faster and is slightly more responsive as the link suggests. Neofetch has different logo.

        It doesn’t have the driver manager so LMDE doesn’t play well with Nvidia gpus.

      • SALT@lemmy.my.idEnglish
        11·
        3 years ago

        I think fedora is better for most lenovo for past year, either thinkpad, ideapad, legion, etc…

        Just make sure to format with @ when installing so you can restore and backup using btrfs snapshot using timeshift

    • tarjeezy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 years ago

      While I normally prefer Linux Mint, Fedora was the only distro that worked with all touch features out of the box on my IdeaPad Flex 5. Other distros I tried out (Mint, Ubuntu, Manjaro, OpenSUSE) had some issue or another that required tweaks: Second-class touch support, like the cursor jumping to where you tap instead of real tap input, applications not drag-scrolling, and the keyboard not re-enabling after flipping back from tablet mode.

  • Dotdev@programming.devEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Gallium is only for chromebooks. For this i would recommend lmde or mx linux.There is wine for running windows program.Just check the wine index for apps which you would run.

    • krizste@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 years ago

      I see. Edit: i was worried about wine not working for csp . which seems to be true(?). but it seems using playonlinux works.