Hello.
I’m going to buy a portable medium to low range. It has 4gb of ram, if not put kde without effects or better xfce?
I like kde but not if it consumes more battery than xfce, although kde the effects have not activated.
Thank you.
KDE seems fine to me
btrfs or ext4?
Personally, I am staying with “ext4” for the present. It’s up to you to decide what you should use.
My laptop does fine with KDE.
Asking for the file system to use because as the next opensuse comes by default with btrfs not have to then change the file system.
How you set up your kde, with or without effects? Makes excessive use of battery? that’s my concern.
regarding the laptop, try to get one with average hardware, e. g. Intell video card and wifi, simple notebooks have, generally, better compatibility with Linux
so, have a look at the hardware before selecting the machine 
Yes, 13.2 will make “btrfs” the default. When I installed 13.2 Milestone 0, I set the file system to “ext4” for my root partition, thus overruling the default.
I turn off desktop effects, mainly because I find them distracting. I don’t know whether that reduces battery usage.
My laptop has Intel video, 4G of memory. I gave it 40G for the root file system, which is probably enough for “btrfs”, but I’ll stick with “ext4” anyway. Don’t try “btrfs” with a smallish root partition.
On Sat 12 Apr 2014 05:56:01 PM CDT, cicerone wrote:
regarding the laptop, try to get one with average hardware, e. g. Intell
video card and wifi, simple notebooks have, generally, better
compatibility with Linux
so, have a look at the hardware before selecting the machine
Hi
The OP could also take a live version on a USB key and fire up the
systems they are looking at (hopefully the sales droid can allow that)
to see how the DE and hardware goes…
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On Sat 12 Apr 2014 08:06:02 PM CDT, nrickert wrote:
jony127;2636579 Wrote:
> Asking for the file system to use because as the next opensuse comes
> by default with btrfs not have to then change the file system.
Yes, 13.2 will make “btrfs” the default. When I installed 13.2
Milestone 0, I set the file system to “ext4” for my root partition, thus
overruling the default.
jony127;2636579 Wrote:
> How you set up your kde, with or without effects? Makes excessive use
> of battery? that’s my concern.
I turn off desktop effects, mainly because I find them distracting. I
don’t know whether that reduces battery usage.
My laptop has Intel video, 4G of memory. I gave it 40G for the root
file system, which is probably enough for “btrfs”, but I’ll stick with
“ext4” anyway. Don’t try “btrfs” with a smallish root partition.
Hi
I think I have too many laptops… got given another one last week a
Compaq Presario CQ56, it only had 2GB of RAM and a single core Celeron.
Looking at the service manual it only had an Intel and AMD M/B with
different cpu’s, so fished around in the dead laptop pile and found an
Acer Aspire that had a T4400 cpu, put that puppy in and another 2GB of
RAM, rocking along quite well now…
My current laptop list;
Compaq Presario CQ56 - 4GB RAM, 320GB 5400rpm HDD, Pentium Dual
Core T4400 CPU, Intel Graphics, Windows 7 and not sure, running the live
rescue system at present.
HP 2000 Notebook PC - 8GB RAM, 320GB 7200rpm HDD, AMD E-1800 CPU,
Radeon HD7340 Graphics, Windows 8.1 and SLED (UEFI Secure Boot).
HP ProBook 4430s - 8GB RAM, 320GB 7200rpm SATAIII, Intel(R) Celeron(R)
CPU B840 @ 1.90GHz, Intel Graphics, Windows 7 and openSUSE 13.1 (UEFI
Boot).
HP ProBook 4440s - 8GB RAM, 128GB OCZ SSD SATAIII, Intel(R) Celeron(R)
CPU B840 @ 1.90GHz, Intel Graphics, SLED (UEFI Secure Boot).
HP ProBook 4525s - 8GB RAM, 1GB SD Card (/boot), 640GB and 500GB drives
with a RAID 1 setup, AMD Athlon™ II P360 Dual-Core, Radeon HD 4200,
SLES 11 SP3 and a VM (libvirt) running SUSE Manager (SLES 11 SP2 using
4GB of the RAM).
DELL Inspiron 1545 - 4GB RAM, 60GB OCZ SSD, Intel(R) Core™2 Duo
CPU T6500 @ 2.10GHz, Radeon HD 4300, SLED 11 SP3.
GATEWAY NV53 - 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, AMD Athlon™ II Dual-Core M300,
Radeon HD 4200, openSUSE 13.1.
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ext4 I agree
In my experience kde, gnome, xfce, lxde - whichever you choose will all perform with similar results. Just employ the power saving features that exist (if you can put up with them, they drive me nuts).
On a side note, I see HP is releasing a new Laptop this coming week I think, only a entry level, but it ships with Ubuntu. Here in the UK it’s only just over £200
This is my experience, as well, so … Agreed.
you need to install some utility or package to improve energy management in laptop?
installing from DVD the option ‘Laptop’ is selected by default, I think this will handle the power management
if the laptop is with double Graphic card, then Bumblebee can do that
it seems to me, the Kernel 3.14 is showing good power management
on my Dell is the Kernel of wonders!
it is important to encrypt the home partition on laptop?
Such is determined by each individual user requirements
Most people probably give insufficient consideration to such areas of security.
In most cases it’s probably a good idea
But in most cases I suspect it doesn’t happen
I encrypt. But it is your decision.
If encrypted, and the laptop is lost or stolen, then there is less concern about loss of sensitive information.
hello.
I’ve been reading the configuration of my laptop and I see it has an option in the bios to set a password to the hard drive. Is this the same as you encrypt your disk with opensuse? What option is better?
Thank you.
No, they are not the same, and having one doesn’t rule out the other, so you can have both.
BIOS password is one thing, a “hurdle” for any would-be thief that appears on startup. Encrypting your disk means that the info in it isn’t saved in a common format but instead that it goes through an encryption algorithm before being written, IIRC. That means that if a thief or cracker could read the contents of your disk it would appear garbled as binary gibberish.
I have KDE running one of my laptops which only has 2 GB of RAM on it and I haven’t turned off the effects. It works alright for me, and if I want to “lighten it up” I could turn off the effects and/or go to Xfce.
I once put full-disk encryption on a laptop running Fedora. I like the idea of the security but it was a pain to have to put in the passphrase to decrypt the harddisk to boot up and then to log into the system normally. I understand that as a ‘necessary evil’ with my work laptop but for personal use it is a pain.
Meanwhile in Ubuntu it can be set up to encrypt the /home drive (only) and attaches the passphrase with your login so you only have to sing in once and it will decrypt your /home drive.
Not sure how openSUSE’s encryption works.
I finally stopped encrypting my hard disk or /home directory because I found when I change distros (which happens frequently) it becomes an annoyance to work around.
Hello, I have kde but I deactivated the effects mainly because I read that consume more battery, but not if it is true.
I am looking for ways to conserve more battery possible. The utility tools laptod mode Is it effective? Should I install it?
Thank you.