Toby Corkindale wrote:
Some quick recommendations.. Add the couple of lines of touchpad config to xorg.d that people mention here and there -- it really improved the touchpad handling on mine.
I wasn't going to bother trying to get the touchpad working. From my reading, that'll happen automatically when I get 3.14. Last time I fiddled with a touchpad, I grabbed the example synaptics config from https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad And of course "syndaemon -Rdtk" in .xsession to avoid palm-clicks while typing.
Enable zram to help with the fairly small amount of available memory, and to reduce thrashing swap on ssd if you have too many browser windows open..
Good point re zram, I've recently added that to my kiosk farm, hadn't thought about it for personal use. No swap, because swap is for sissies. My 16GB is one big btrfs -- not even a wussy MBR. :-) Now I just need to work out how to use quota groups... After that my main jobs are to fix pm suspend, and go through powertop's suggestions. Biggest unsolved annoyance so far, is epdfview is gone due to lack of upstream maintenance, and evince-gtk doesn't remember its geometry -- I might have to go back to running a WM!