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Best distro for my Laptop?
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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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I have distro-hopped before so i don't mind switching
I need a distro which is package-agnostic since i use a lot of old ooen source academic software and they alternate between being only supported on RHEL or Ubuntu
Fedora 39 is great except when i need to build the above mentioned software from source and i spend 2 hrs failing to match the dependencies from Ubuntu
Also want to improvey laptop's battery life, but i think i can't get it much better than in Fedora
Thank you for responding!
Perhaps you should look into container solutions like e.g. Distrobox. You can basically install/run any package; just ensure usage of the correct container environment.
If you're otherwise content with Fedora, then perhaps consider installing the aforementioned Distrobox; which happens to be found within Fedora's repos and thus one
sudo dnf install distroboxaway from being installed on your machine.I'd argue that Fedora is not best for battery life, though. Minimalist distros tend to be a lot better at this. Installing auto-cpufreq in Fedora Silverblue on my AMD-powered laptop did come with significant improvements, so perhaps you could prolong your battery life by utilizing it or similar programs; think of TLP, thermald etc to name a few.
Thank you for the fast reply
I looked into distrobox and checks all the boxes but there is the issue of my lack of storage space(currently only 130 GB left out of 240)
Also thank you for the suggestions regarding battery life, will look into those.
It can definitely fill up space if you're not careful. Just ensure that only the minimal amount of containers and their respective images are on the system.
I would assume one container each for Ubuntu and Arch should suffice for most people. Sure; this will likely take up to 10 GB of extra storage in total (eventually), but foregoing this solution means that you'd likely have to settle for Arch (because of the AUR) or something like Gentoo (because no other distro does compiling and building from source like Gentoo does).
If you feel particularly adventurous, you could also consider Nix and/or NixOS; though you'd have to ensure that said packages are available as a nixpkg. Nix can also be installed on Fedora; consider Determinate Systems' installer for that*.