Red_sun_in_the_sky

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  • If you want to use linux on it check out some lenovo thinkpads or notebooks. I have an lenovo g50-80. Its 10 years old. I run debian on it. It has wifi issues cause of old hardware. But its fine otherwise. I have an asus laptop which I use daily running windows. That one is old too.

    As far as alternatives go theres libreoffice. There’s only office but its not open source maybe and it runs fine as an app image. You can google docs in browser anyway.

    If you never used linux I wouldn’t suggest putting it on a laptop you are going to get. Try it out in a vm. Keep in mind its a lot tinkering files to like run games on wine or lutris. The games you mentioned seem to run fine on proton I just checked.





  • Well back when I really was unaware of what linux was, I saw like Ubuntu that my friend showed on his laptop. I loved the aesthetic then. It was 16 version of Ubuntu probably. Gnome with that orange -ish red look blew my mind at the time. I didn’t know desktops can be made to look like that.

    Ever since I have a soft spot for it. Of course I used more DEs. I used kde or xfce. Even wms like bspwm or ice. Gnome seemed slow on my laptop back then but that was cause its a 4gb ram laptop and I was dual booting. I have recently moved to debian and I chose gnome variant. It feels fine and not slow. But I have yet to test more.

    Gnome is very simple to set up. It does use ram but if you have laptop with larger ram these days I think its fine.

    Personally I like gnome’s dock. I have used other wm’s where I set up polybar and dock. I still like gnome.



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    I would say aesthetically always preferred gnome but my laptop which is pretty low end ran slow on it. Kde is in that ballpark for my laptop in terms slowdowns but for the most part it floated through. That was when I used like manjaro.

    But I moved on to antix for stability. It has icewm that they configured for the distro. I loved it.

    Due to some hardware issue I tested out other distros to see if it was hardware issue or not. Currently my laptop has gnome on it I think.






  • I’ve tried finding apps long ago. I saw like just player or next player or nova. Then vlc and mpv. I still have vlc. I use mpv for like watching shows or movies that I got cause I can add settings in the conf. But the app interface not good. You should check these apps see what suits your needs. Next player is simple looking like mpv.

    Nova is more like a saikou or dantotsu app but for movies or tv I guess. Nova can be used like movie tracker with metadata retrieval. But that is more library management. So more like kodi. Then look at kodi and use mpv as external player if needed.