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
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