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SharkPlush / Linux Laptop Optimizations.md
Last active February 3, 2026 22:01
Linux Laptop Optimizations

I have a website now that includes a more dumbed down but straight forward version of this guide that isnt basied towards Arch Linux but considers most distros. https://linuxguidance.net/improve-battery-and-optimize-your-linux-laptop/

Everything I do in this guide is mostly taken from the Arch Wiki, and is for Arch Linux, obviously this can probably be applied to other Linux distributions especially Arch based ones, this guide is for people who want a laptop with similar effciency they had on Windows or MacOS. I hate the excuse of having to compromise on Linux to have good battery or thermals on laptops.

Please think of this guide as more of a starting point, if you're serious about fully optimizing your laptop research your laptop and the hardware inside of it as that can get you even further down the rabbit hole.

This guide assumes you have a relatively modern laptop with at least an SSD from the factory, if you don't, don't worry you can still probably follow this guide perfectly, if you have a 32-b

@Th3Whit3Wolf
Th3Whit3Wolf / Arch Secure Laptop Install.md
Last active May 4, 2025 09:37
My install instruction for a secure Arch Linux (sway) laptop workstation

What's Cool

  • Encrypted root partition
    • AES-256 bit cipher
    • Argon2id variant for PBKDF
    • Sha3-512 bit hash
  • rEFInd bootloader
    • With dreary theme
    • Optimal Settings (optimized for aesthetics, and boot time)
  • Boot into backups thanks to refind-btrfs
@zmwangx
zmwangx / markdown-latex-etc.md
Last active April 26, 2024 12:37
An incomplete guide to Markdown, LaTeX, and more, initially written for Jiawen Li.

Markdown, LaTeX, etc.

Caution

  • (10/30/2016) I am not sure when and how this gist gained quite a few stars... But as stated in the v1.13 change log (from 06/16/2015): some content may be outdated, and I am not going to fix them. Moreover, having learned much myself, I do not necessarily agree with every point made in this document from 2.5 years ago. Therefore, please take views from this document with a grain of salt, and do further research as you see fit.

  • This document was initally written for a friend of mine, Jiawen Li, so it might reflect some personal tastes here and there. For instance, some discussions are geared towards Windows, though *nix is obviously superior. For another example, when I say "you seem to love Sublime Text a lot," I'm certainly not expecting most people to love Sublime (in fact I never used it for more than three minutes in a row).

  • This document is written in Markdown. The Markdown rendering engine on GitHub Gist is somewhat limited a

@kristopherjohnson
kristopherjohnson / Makefile
Last active October 7, 2025 07:32
Makefile that uses Pandoc to generate HTML, PDF, DOCX, etc. from Markdown source files
# Makefile
#
# Converts Markdown to other formats (HTML, PDF, DOCX, RTF, ODT, EPUB) using Pandoc
# <http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/>
#
# Run "make" (or "make all") to convert to all other formats
#
# Run "make clean" to delete converted files
# Convert all files in this directory that have a .md suffix