Depends on what they’re for. Main computer? If so, whats it replacing spec-wise?

IBM does not have a great track record with fascist regimes, and I don’t particularly trust US-based enterprise software to not be backdoored anymore, especially not an operating system

In an enterprise environment? Hell no. But a home server? Not like most of us are counting gigabytes of storage, and its not the worst thing to have in case your other hardware breaks

Same. Its the only thing i like about gnome, that buttery smooth three finger swipe on the touchpad to switch around. It made me actually understand how people can stand to work on a laptop without multiple monitors

Everything else about gnome to me just feels like they’re trying to abstract away basic functionality

Stock windows ISO, for work.

Linux became so much less work to keep running than windows, even for gaming (if you’ve got an AMD gpu at least). I don’t play competitive gaming in any capacity so I’m not missing pretty much anything.

Lots of weird stuff like that. I learned a couple weeks ago the three finger touchpad gesture from gnome works for windows virtual desktops (IF you already created a second one, otherwise it does nothing IIRC).

Sick of microsofts shit (popups, AI, random unknown settings changes that i dont notice until its too late and shit is broken) and i wanted to learn Linux and get some home server experience.

It runs an HDMI cable to a TV instead of relying on a crappy abandonware TV OS.

I mean… that worked fine for teenage me with a DSI.

Thats really not that big in terms of a NAS. Some crazy fuckers on reddit had literal PETABYTES of storage.

Oof, yeah, sharepoint is horrible

Active Directory is a hell of a drug, as is Group Policy

That and i hear macbook battery life is absolute black magic fuckery

I’ve got a Latitude XT2. some of the plastic bits aged badly and developed a sort of weird film, including the charger brick; if you’ve had the same problem, I scrubbed the hell out of those specific parts with goo-gone and a microfiber cloth and its smooth and shiny again.

Okay, that’s pretty sweet. Imma have to look into that, i know a guy who just retired a server with like 10+ old HDDs

Ive got an HP Zbook g6 coming my way soon I’m excited about, and its way overkill for what I’m gonna use it for; i just need a bigger laptop because i have giant meat hooks for hands and I actually use the numpad

Tl;dr, you can get a lot of laptop at decent prices looking at “older” hardware

Dell has some weird default settings (like RAID by default on single drive systems) that can be a bit janky in general

I… I’m pretty sure kissanime has been dead for years now at this point??

For starters, 9anime and its rebrand, aniwave, are long gone. You’re looking at a fake site.