I didn’t intentionally pick Ubuntu, my pc went shit and I needed to install some os and the only one I had available in a usb was Ubuntu noble.

Laptop specs: I think a 7th gen inter i5, 8 GBs of ram and (the issue) a 125 GB M2.Sata SSD

I’m not really going to play games on it, it’s one of those weird laptops that folds and can use a stylus.

So what would you suggest for something light in size and good with a stylus.

  • MXX53@programming.dev
    211·
    24 days ago

    I would go Debian for stability.

    I like fedora since it updates a little more frequently than Debian, but it isn’t a full on rolling release. I used opensuse tumbleweed for a while and it broke on me several times.

    I also used arch for a while, but I’m a dad to young children and I just don’t have the time to fuck around with my OS anymore. When I have time to work on my personal dev projects, I just want to drop into tmux, launch neovim and go. After some distro hopping I landed on Fedora with KDE for my desktop and gnome on my laptop. I also have an old netbook running antix with iceWM and an old thinkpad running fedora i3. The latter 2 machines are my hard focus machines.

    • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      24 days ago

      Big 2nd for Fedora. Fedora isn’t Debian stable but isn’t exactly unstable either, and I think having fresher packages in your main repo is worth it.

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      24 days ago

      3rd for Fedora. Stylus support is great on the latest stable KDE Plasma release. So, I would go for that.

  • sbird [moved to sopuli]@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    24 days ago

    I recently installed Fedora on my own 2-in-1 flippy laptop, and it works well. The screen rotates when I rotate the device, touchscreen works, and the stylus works as well.

  • enemenemu@lemm.ee
    51·
    24 days ago

    There’s no big difference between ubuntu, mint or debian. I am not sure why people try to sell it to you.

    Look up if fedora silverblue supports your stylus. Create a live image and test it. If it works, install it. If not fedora, then opensuse aeon.

  • squinky@lemm.ee
    3·
    24 days ago

    I just went through this. LMDE: Linux Mint Debian Edition. It’s Mint without Ubuntu and it’s pretty great.

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    24 days ago

    Debian. You’ll have the same (amazing) package manager without the extra ubuntu stuff. Find a desktop manager that supports the stylus (I assume Gnome and KDE Plasma both will support it).

    Just make sure to enable non-free packages.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    2·
    24 days ago

    It sounds like anything with KDE Plasma will make you happy. If the underlying OS has been fine with you, then try Kubuntu. If you want a non-Ubuntu system, try openSuse or Fedora.

  • TheMightyCat@lemm.ee
    11·
    24 days ago

    I would suggest Arch with KDE plasma, I don’t have a stylus so can’t vouch for it personally but I’ve seen it mentioned in the update notes alot.