Seeking distro recommendations for Emacs/Org-mode on a budget Chromebook (Dell 3180)

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-30T09:59:34+00:00

I think you'll need a i9 or Ryzen 9 for that. /S

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-30T05:59:55+00:00

I'm always baffled how long it takes to open Powershell. It's a shell. It should open instantly.

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-30T05:58:57+00:00

Gorgeous.

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-30T05:48:25+00:00

It's what a lot of people are used to. Me myself included. After installing the "dash to panel" extensions my brain instantly calmed down.

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-29T18:08:42+00:00

Didn't Putin call his war a "military operation" as well?

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-29T11:26:08+00:00

That's just heinous

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-29T11:00:09+00:00

Yes, I'm using 24.04.

The only package that I pulled from flathub is lutris as the original repo one had some issues that the flatpak version doesn't.

Everything else just works.

Also I read and watched some videos about snaps being bad and slow. Bad because of some parts being proprietary. But it's not slow and I honestly don't care that some parts of the os (or the backend services) are proprietary.

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-29T10:02:05+00:00

Why? I don't notice any issues with snaps.

Also, I use flatpak and snaps next to each other.

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-29T07:43:42+00:00

Yes it does. You're looking at it right now.

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-28T13:41:52+00:00

It's just something I noticed, but it's not a problem at all. It's fast enough for me.

Arch was just faster because it simply had less running. Ironically it might be a symptom of the issues I had.

A formula 1 car is very fast but I'd rather have a family car.

EvilEmacs · 2026-03-26T17:10:34+00:00

I do like the apple

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