Jokes on them, they just taught me about Tails OS.

And hello to my FBI NSA agent!

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Mine is

AppImage > Native repos > AUR > Manually compiling from source > Finding an alternative

I don’t like installing software that doesn’t need to be installed, thus I like AppImage. Pretty portable. That also applies to compiling from source. Yes, my home directory is a mess.

Or switch to any rolling-release distro which won’t have major updates to begin with.

Sure it is, but we are lazy you know.

Oh, come on, that’s just mandatory equipment for ThinkPad usage*

^{*(if running GNU+Linux)}

Well, that could be right then.

Yes, but requirements for a general use computer have barely changed in the past 10 years. Well, the only thing changing them is Windows 11.

I’ve used a 2007 mid-range (?) laptop up until it broke in early 2023. Core 2 Duo T7100 (later upgraded to T7500 bought on AliExpress for €1), 4GB of DDR2 RAM, GeForce 8600M GT, cheap 128GB SATA SSD (also from AliExpress). Perfectly usable with Linux Mint. For fun I put Windows 11 on it with Superfetch and BITS services disabled. Perfectly usable with that as well. The only game I tried on it was Asphalt 8 though, but it ran smoothly.

I want to get something like that again, but with support for more RAM. 4GB was the maximum.

“Old laptop” has a Core 2 Duo and 4GB of DDR2 RAM.

It also has a better keyboard with plenty of travel, on-the-go replaceable battery, easily accessible components likely to get replaced/upgraded/cleaned, large cooler, large selection of I/O, has higher likelihood to survive 2 more years than a brand new laptop and it can be used as a weapon or anchor.

Mmmm, perfectly level.

Plot twist: The right side is actually just Linux furries having Vim vs Emacs and X11 vs Wayland debate/fight.

You didn’t have to call me out like that.

just 282 non-white pixels

Assuming 0ms of time spent after cool down, that’s 141 minutes of work.

Closing your laptop now types the letter E instead of locking

Hey, that should be T unless you open it back immediately.

No hardware acceleration. Anyway, AV1 hardware encoding is a new thing anyway.

I know, I used to use an SSD with a different laptop. But it doesn’t bother me enough, especially since I reboot it like once a month.

1. I am a cheapskate

2. I am too lazy to replace it (one of those modern hard to open laptops)

3. I am too lazy to test and clone a 1TB (or more) drive

I actually used an SSD before with an old laptop, but that only required removing 2 screws. As for cleaning out dust, I don’t use it much anyway, mainly because I don’t want to deal with cracking this open.

I am just looking at getting some used ThinkPad.
But anyway, most stuff can be done on a smartphone. On the other hand, I already killed 1 motherboard likely due to overheating while re-encoding videos to AV1 in Termux. It was replaced under warranty both times though. The second time it was just some issue with communicating with cameras. Yeah, I am on this phone’s 3rd motherboard.

But anyway, it’s a laptop. I reboot it like once a month when updating, so it’s not a big deal.

I think Cinnamon does that too.

I still use HDD.