BKLronin

Its not that bad but the most time you spend on installation is opting out of services. This takes up like 75% of the install time :D

In short, there have been key signing issues multiple times in the past that. That were the most notable problems from the user side.

Running three instances with KDE that are unproblematic.

I want one too! :D

I have to wait until my X220 dies of old age but the good part is I dont need it for musicproduction so no pressure on him.

I tried a full Linux setup and it worked fine. A bit more difficult if you have any Wave, Native Instruments,etc VSTs but thats mostly because of their installers. Yabridge really does wonders to bridge all of these.

I think a framework might be the smartest solution if one takes everything into account. BIggest downsides of the macs is the non upgradeability and bad serviceabilty as far as I´ve heard. I was kind of forced to use macOS for Dev purposes but despite the low power draw, a third of my workstation, macOS is not really my thing.

Never thought I would ever say this but Apple has currently some nice Laptops and Asahi Linux seems to get better and might be a standard choice. Got a mac mini and power draw vs performance is really good. Alternatively a laptop with ryzen 9 7940HS or similar seems to be roughly in the same ballpark. macOS is kinda annoying though.

I would probably get a framework laptop. https://frame.work/de/de

Iḿ quite happy with manjaro despite a few not so pretty incidents in the past. Endeavour OS seems a good choice too.