I bought a laptop yesterday, specs:- lenovo thinkpad, Processor 1x 11th Generation Intel® Core™ i3-1115G4 Processor(Core i3-1115G4) Memory 1x 8GB DDR4 3200 Operating System No Operating System() Hard Drive 1x 512GBPCIeOPAL2 Wireless Network 1x Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2x2 AX; Bluetooth® 5.0 or abo…

[image] Helpneeded: So is endeavour os good for laptop? Yes. [image] Helpneeded: Is dual booting easy? It depends on you. I would say yes, but that’s not the same for everyone. [image] Helpneeded: In short, I want to dual boot linux (preferably endeavour) with window manager. …

In my opinion you are a bit overthinking. Disable secure boot and fast boot on UEFI once you receive it, install windows as normal, disable fast boot amd hibernation from windows, then shrink the main partition from windows and install EndeavourOS to the unallocated space.

[image] Helpneeded: In short, I want to dual boot linux (preferably endeavour) with window manager. Can this be done without any problems? Yes. What thinkpad model do you have? Everything works for me out of the box but there are always oddities in hardware, like incompatible proprietary driv…

I have 2 Lenovo Thinkpads that are multibooted with no issues at all. One is a E520 that has 4 distros on it including EndeavourOS and one is a E531 that has 5 distros on it including EndeavourOS. You should have no issues as well.

[image] Helpneeded: how should i maintain the laptop? [image] A Complete Idiot's Guide To Endeavour OS Maintenance / Update / Upgrade Newbie I’m a complete idiot - so here’s my guide for you! It has been asked a lot, and fairly frequently recently it se…

I would like to add to everyone’s comments here. I have a laptop with the exact same processor. I have never booted into windows on this processor but linux is known to not have the best battery life when it comes to laptops. I have optimized my machine with auto-cpufreq and the acpi-cpufreq kernel…

[image] Helpneeded: Now I am confused which distro I should install I have been a Linux user since 2000! I have been distro hopping for almost the past 10 months and tried everything Deb, RPM, Gentoo, Slackware… you name it… and settled finally on Manjaro (which is Arch based as EndeavourOS)…

[image] Helpneeded: Should I dual boot endeavour on laptop? No, you should only have EndeavourOS. No windoze. [image] Helpneeded: I installed windows as I need it for my online exams. Drop out and go to a proper school.

[image] Helpneeded: I installed windows as I need it for my online exams. Did you try throwing the app at Wine?

Taking a stab at what OP needs Windows for, when he refers to “Exams”, are the monitoring/lockdown software that is implemented to curtail cheating. Assuming this is University the OP is talking about, you do not want to be messing about with this as your hard work and tuition money are on the line…

If a university wants you to use spyware, they should provide the hardware for it (as well as the software). Especially since you’re paying them a fortune in tuition. My employer demands that I use windoze (because we live in society and there is no “I” in “TEAM”), so they give me a company’s lapto…