This may not work for you, but helped me for a bit in HS. Don't use a desktop environment. Literally run in text mode. Use Lynx/Links/w3m if you need to look s

This may not work for you, but helped me for a bit in HS. Don't use a desktop environment. Literally run in text mode. Use Lynx/Links/w3m if you need to look something up. VLC has an ncurses interface, and you can use youtube-dl to download music. Use emacs or vim for text editing, and tmux to split the screen ( + more, but I never used it to it's full potential ) and you can cover a lot of ground. For the innevitable need to view pdf's and pictures, download them to this text mode machine, and then file transfer them to an offline only tablet. Did I discover this because I was dumb and didn't know how to handle nvidia drivers? ...I was a noob ok :| . That being said, I think I focused more and accomplished more with this setup then I did for the next 3 months after I set up a DE.