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Re: "pulled the trigger on an old thinkpad yesterday. About to..."
ooh, nice. i feel like most advice i give will be too me-specific and opinionated to be helpful, but i *will* say that you should definitely check out TLP:
— TLP is essential and you might already know it, but still.
Its magic for your battery life, and will help you long term with making your battery wear out slower, it just needs a half hour to configure it to your liking, and then you never need to think about it.
Also, if you havent already, explore lighter WMs like i3 or AwesomeWM (my personal choice). There are non-tiling ones that are less resource intensive too, but I don't use them, so I don't know what to recommend.
Jun 24 · 5 months ago
thanks for the suggestions. I think this battery will need all the help it can get. I chose Manjaro with sway as my distro; the Linux audio videos I found most helpful were Manjaro-based, and I have played with and enjoyed the tiling-based windows managers.
i wish you luck in your upcoming battles with jack2. godspeed !
oh no the audio incompatability gods have been summoned! is pipewire any better? my sparse research has been inconclusive to date...
Think most of my installs for like... the past couple years now? have primarily used pipewire. That honestly was more down to it just starting to ship with more distros out of the box, tbh, rather than a specific choice, but can't say I have any complaints. (Which isn't true for jack ;__;)
Also haven't been doing as much audio/music stuff in that time period, so grain of salt, but it has felt more dependable than how I remember jack2 being... Ultimately I'd suggest having as few components as possible, whatever they are. (n.b, If you find yourself installing a package called "pipewire-jack", take a step back and reflect haha.)
disclaimer: I am in no sense a pro or expert
pulled the trigger on an old thinkpad yesterday. About to dive into setting up a linux-based audio production computer.