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)
Any computer that can run windows 11 can run any Linux DE without issue - you don’t necessarily need a lightweight distro.
For that type of machine, I’d probably go with a reasonably up-to-date distro with either KDE Plasma or Gnome.
Nobara might actually be a good choice - it’s Fedora but tweaked for gaming and media creation.
By my understanding is that win 11s is a watered down walled version of win 11 for weaker machines- and that the sibling laptop has chromos, which is also a perposely limitating os also for running on weaker machines, so I assumed the thing isn’t so powerfull. Though regardless of machine power, I like my programs and UI minimal and simple (win95 boxes my belovid) I don’t like bloat or unessersary extra fancy rendering. (Idk about internal processes in terms of bulk/lightness though) i guess it is Linux and I can change the UI to anything if I beat it hard enough(?). Plasma does look appealing with the touch pen support it says.
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.
I see. Edit: i was worried about wine not working for csp . which seems to be true(?). but it seems using playonlinux works.
Playonlinux usually has patches to make things work.
I have an Ideapad and Fedora has been the distro that has run it ever since
I don’t know what software you plan on using to create media, but the Duet 3i isn’t a powerful machine, and it may struggle to do media creation
Either way, a solid distro for pretty much any hardware and experience level is Mint XFCE
it seems to be the lightest mint? looks interesting. theres also middle mate mint… hm. in terms of making media… choniest program to go on it would be csp (mayb flstudio if i actually get it). others tend to be light, like pxtone, audacity, mugen, renpy, old rpg makers… i tend to draw non resource heavy art in csp as well… so im sure its good enough… i hope.
