Post #2450060

i’m coming at this realization from the opposite direction; my experience w linux made me believe you had to be VERY disciplined about your hardware purchases or you’re stuck having something that doesn’t work until you fix it. so i’ve spent the last decade buy linux-first laptops – aka generic tier laptops with mac laptop price tags. i needed a new laptop and my circumstances forced me to buy a cheap/off-brand windows-first laptop and i was dreading having to fix whatever didn’t work like i had to do circa 2002; but no, it’s just worked. the people of lemmy made me realize this and wo them, i would be stuck trying to do my thing on broken hardware.