for my whole life i was a windows user but my new laptop battery dries in an hour with med tasks on windows 11 my 16gb ram is 60% used with nothing opened but windows

Posted by Ok-Contact-259@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 16 comments

i dont want to use arch its just a meme i know its hard i want an easy software but very much custmizable i heard about kde so yup i want to dual boot it i want to play some survivel games in it like sons of the forest i want to use it for other things also design study yk im total new can any body help me with this

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BinkReddit@reddit

Don't take this the wrong way, but, if you can't write a simple sentence with the appropriate capitalization and punctuation, I don't think Linux is for you.

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the_abortionat0r@reddit

Linux doesn't require you to be smart to use it, just look at the anti Wayland crazies.

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Linux isn't going to solve the issue of a dying battery. It will probably consume less power if set up well but if your laptop only lasts an hour unplugged then that's a hardware problem and not an OS problem (or maybe you have a crypto miner installed or something like that).

You mention in this post that you have a 4060. Assuming that's your laptop and not a separate PC, your problem may be as simple as a power setting somewhere in Windows. As far as I know, gaming laptops will often have a "gaming mode" setting that unlocks cores and utilises the GPU.

If you've never used linux before, don't install Arch. If you want KDE then go with something like Kubuntu or Fedora, but keep in mind that there are hundreds of distributions and nearly all of them work perfectly fine for every purpose.

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mina86ng@reddit

Any popular distribution with KDE included is going to be a good choice to try Linux. u/sublime_369 suggested Kubuntu for example. Two key points are to not overthink it (I phrase it as Linux distributions are not like cars) and keep in mind that Linux is a distinct operating system so you need to approach it with open mind and capacity to learn.

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necrophcodr@reddit

Linux is not Windows. It is an entirely different operating system. Applications and games won't just run the same as they do on Windows. Valve has done a great job with making games on Steam run perfectly, but that's only one aspect.

If you're using other applications, you might not be able to just download and run it. And when you do, it isn't installed or setup in the same way that you're used to on Windows. There's going to be a learning curve, and some of that is going to be painful. It's a big change in how you use your computer. Some applications might not ever be possible to get working either, so you should be aware that it is not without trade-offs.

If you still want to try it, nothing stops you from doing so. But you should consider backing up anything you might want to access later, to a physical medium you own. Be that a USB disk ( not a small 16GB USB stick, those can die quite easily ), or some cloud storage that you can access your data via just a web browser. This will cost you money, if you do not already have it.

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Ruben_NL@reddit

Battery life of just a hour on a new laptop smells like a factory defect.

Are there others with the same issue with the same model laptop? If not, you'd probably have a good case for a warranty replacement.

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CameramanNick@reddit

Before diving into a completely different OS, if there's a factory reset option, try it. You'll likely recover a lot of what you've lost since it was new. Then, be a bit more careful about what you download and install.

The reality is that the success of linux on laptops depends heavily on exactly what laptop you have and it tends to involve quite a bit of intricate fiddling to get all of the hardware working. Be prepared for quite a process.

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Ok-Contact-259@reddit (OP)

i have an acer 5 nitro and i also want to move to linux cuz i like kde desktops styles i see

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CameramanNick@reddit

It depends exactly what hardware it has (I don't know that machine). You can possibly do some research and figure out what has open source drivers.

It also depends what you want to do with it. If you want web, word and email, well, you might as well install ChromeOS and do it all in Google Docs and gmail. If you want much more than that then you will need to be very, very careful. Don't nuke your Windows install before going through everything that shows up in Device Manager and figuring out if it can be made to work on Linux.

That includes things like the battery management, external display compatibility, and so on. Everything. Many laptops can be made to work reasonably well but it's not safe to assume it'll be fine. Things like suspend, resume, sleep, hibernate, which are critical on laptops, can be tricky to get working.

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