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.

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You can try making a virtual machine with a 20 GB virtual hard drive to try out different Linux distros in the meantime.

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?

I was able to use this guys docker image and tool in order to cross compile my Rust programs in the past. They were very simple programs so I dont know how well it works for larger projects.

https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin

They run them through QA at least and work directly with Nvidia to fix any issues they notice. They dont catch everything of course but its still good.

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.

System76.com has laptops like that imo

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.

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

The auto update client, it’s halfway down this page on how to automatically update your hostname/IP.

https://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/dynamic-dns-ddns-troubleshooting-guide

That’s what I do. Funnily though, I can’t remember which device is hosting the auto update client to update ddns. As long as it’s still updated right? Lol

winehq.org runs most everything now. What can’t you get to run?

Just dual boot at first, you don’t have to wipe the windows partition. That way if/when you find a save file you need to copy over, you can go looking for it on your still existing Windows drive