jlow (he / him)

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I’m in a similar situation atm and have also been looking at Thinkpad x13 as well as x390 and older Dell XPS models. I’m a bit afraid that 8gb of RAM might be not enough in the future (afaik most of these have soldered RAM) but so far I did not run into problems with 8gb on my current laptop. Generally Thinkpads and XPS have very good Linux compatibility from what I heard.

ARM and Intel should both work well, I think (this might change for newer computers in the future since Intel let go a lot of their Linux devs in 2025 iirc).

Been a happy Bazzite users for over a year. Not much of a gamer but NVIDIA drivers that don’t require tinkering during updates (like with immutable Fedora) and being able to just use the old install until broken updates (sleep mode maybe once?) is sooooo convenient! Also people on their Discord (yeah, I know …) are generally super helpful.

That’s the beauty of (this shite version of) capitalism, you can’t! I don’t think giving money global evilcorps that don’t give a fuck about their employees will really support them, at least.

Kickstarter / Patreon, maybe?

I think this is a really cool concept bit I’d love to not jave to buy stuff I don’t need to support them:

https://www.glitchprod.com/knights-of-guinevere

I’d pay for digital DRM-free downloads of media any day, though.

Yeah, give me more reasons to have even less of a guilty conscious when pirating from evilcorps 💖