Eh, I’ve had worse. I’d actually like it if it included FDE (my spare Artix laptop has this config, while my main is stuck with home encryption (on seperate partition)and Suse TW, which is kinda chaotic. I complained about openrc being a pain to daily, but Artix actually makes it good and feels actually stable.
You can backup via a live enviroment anyway.
I’m trying to use alpine Linux on a VM. The amount of things depending on systemd is extreme. It’s a pain in the ass not having it.
Orr… I’m shitty at Linux.
The new Intel ARC iGPUs in the H series are actually great and in my opinion could compete with dGPUs. But I’m too poor to even try them.
Gamers think everything without a dedicated GPU is low end. I play games on Intel HD from 2018. Most work tolerably. I’m not switching until my laptop falls apart or it becomes fully obsolete (to slow to do my productivity tasks).
It has a hyperthreaded quad-core. While it has less than half of the benchmark scores of modern PCs, it’s still better than any used laptops you could get under 300€ (looking at you EU used hardware taxes (also, the taxes conveniently avoid the US … How did that happen)).
Or shotcut. I once ran it on 8GB, minimal arch with no swap. Well.
And I’m not even trying to build android on my new relatively modern laptop. It won’t work.