does Linux actually enhance battery life? (thelemmy.club)

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I'm thinking about buying a small budget notebook with a touchscreen for university and running a resource friendly Linux distro on it to extend battery life (and also bc windows and Google suck ass). since I'm pretty much out of my depth here: does that make sense at all? are there noob friendly Linux distros available that support touch screen/ flippable notebooks. and if so, would it also make sense to buy a lenovo chromebook rather than a windows 11 based notebook? thanks in advance!

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[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Please use a better title in the future. Glad you got some solid advice!

[-] lemminger@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago

there you go.

[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you <3

[-] Maddier1993@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

In the future? This is lemmy, we can actually edit titles.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

You know you're really in a Linux Forum when people bitch at the posters for not phrasing the questions the way they think they should be phrased. Lol.

[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Well no the title was "noob question" or something, it provides no information at all.

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