SkaveRat

Tuxedo is a bit hit or miss. Used one for 2 years and wasn’t happy with the case quality. The plastic basically broke at some edges and screw holes

The hardware also wasn’t as Linux compatible as they claim. 5Ghz wifi just didn’t work reliably. With their support page saying the fix is to disable 5Ghz

“finally upgraded my steam deck to 1TB” plays Vampire Survivor

To expand on the translation metaphor:

Trying to run a window program on Linux (without proton) is like trying to read a completely alien text. Your have basically 0 in common and no way to understand it

Proton is doing the translator job of helping. And it’s doing a great job for a lot of the alien language. Which is why so many programs and games work on Linux with proton

But even it can’t always be perfect, and if the language is using some weird dialect, it might not understand or misinterpret things, which causes games to be buggy or unplayable on Linux

You can’t just replace the licence with a new, more restrictive, one. Unless each and every contributor to the codebase agrees

my T570 crashed when pickup it up on the bottom right corner.

And after 2 years an 1 month (1 month after warranty), it broke completely. Likely a mainboard defect.

That’s when I said “oh hey, frameworks are exactly as expensive as thinkpads, but way better to repair”

Careful with think pads from the last 6ish years. Their build quality is absolute garbage, even the T series