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)

  • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • krizste@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.