I’m thinking about buying a small budget notebook with a touchscreen for university and running a resource friendly Linux distro on it to extend battery life (and also bc windows and Google suck ass). since I’m pretty much out of my depth here: does that make sense at all? are there noob friendly Linux distros available that support touch screen/ flippable notebooks. and if so, would it also make sense to buy a lenovo chromebook rather than a windows 11 based notebook? thanks in advance!
other than the think pad recommendations, if you buy a laptop from almost any “mainstream” brand (lets say a company with a million sales or above a year), which is 2-3 years old, you will have a great experience. even 1 year is enough for like 90+% cases.
if you want to buy a chromebook, check https://docs.chrultrabook.com/docs/getting-started/prerequisites.html - only buy supported models.
in my experience, battery life has always been better than windows (but that requires some experience and knowledge about governors and other stuff, check tlp docs if you want to, and also buying mainstream intel/amd stuff (that has not a fancy architecture like hetrogenous cores))