Darkrai

I found a thinkpad with a radeon GPU for only 200 which was nice.

Ones of the reasons I like Pop, they install a recovery partition with a copy of the install USB, finally they have a ‘factory reset’ that reinstalls the OS while keeping the users home folders.

We already have a social credit score, we started it in the 80s. Its called credit

Stop talking to the type of people that care about what phone you have.

Were you running Wayland by any chance?

If you want to support Linux devs and continued development, I would buy from System76, Tuxedo Computers, or even Framework.

If you’re going to buy used then yeah the Thinkpad is fine.

I just installed TrueNAS on a desktop with a lot of SATA slots. https://www.truenas.com/

This is my recommended gaming distro, its actually works from my experience unlike the 3 different arch based distros I tried.

It depends on the person and their experience obviously, but for me, trying Linux back in 2020 felt like when I was new to computers in general and was poking around and learning Windows XP for the first time. It was fun seeing all the different settings options and features that were new to me.

I unfortunately can’t reach it from Kbin yet, I think I have to wait on the weird automatic creation thing Ernest’s account does, or maybe it’s completely manual *skull emoji*

Capitalism invented inventing things lol

Edit: my favorite capitalism invention https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Not only that, they support the right to repair and offer replacement parts on ALL of S76’s laptops