Hey guys, lifelong Windows user here! My younger sister was using my old laptop for a while for school and told me she didn't need it anymore cuz she got a Chromebook for school so she gave it back and its performance was quite poor. It was running Windows 11 and was idling at something like 55% so I decided to wipe Windows from it and run Linux, saw a few Youtube videos on which Linux distro to install, and as I'm a Computer Science major (🤓) I decided to install Arch as I don't mind living in the terminal. So far the performance is amazing, Seeing the cpu usage around 1-2% was something that I thought I'd never see. I still can't believe how well my old laptop is performing considering it used to lag and freeze while having one Chrome tab open with a Youtube video playing.
I did run into some issues like not having some shortcuts working (screenshot, Windows+Tab) but they were easy fixes and some issues with the size of my cursor changing while just hovering it over different applications like when I had first installed Firefox the cursor became really small tho I did fix it pretty quickly with the help of Perplexity ai but when I made a fresh install of ghostty terminal, the cursor turned really big and I spent a few hours trying to fix it but nothing worked so I tried switching from Wayland to x11 in the startup screen and it somehow fixed everything so I was happy that my cursor wasn't just increasing and decreasing in size on its on (I'm a complete noob in Linux so if you do know a solution, please mention it as idk what I'm doing)
Right now I'm interested in "Ricing" and making everything look cool, I have watched a few Youtube videos on ricing and I haven't really understood anything, it is a bit overwhelming so it will take me some time to make my own desktop look something like the ones I've seen in r/unixporn.
So far I've changed the wallpaper and installed the ghostty terminal and a few more basic apps like Chrome and Discord. I'm currently in the process of modifying the way the lock screen looks and probably gonna move on to customize other things down the line.
If anyone has suggestions on what I should do on Linux, please mention them! I'm eager to learn more and make use of this old laptop as I didn't want it to just sit somewhere.
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