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This is just something that's been swimming in my brain that I need to type: I don't have a nice laptop. I do, but it's complicated.
I have many laptops in my "possession". Most of them are work supplied. I don't, however, have a nice one that's actually mine. I realise this is the lowest level of problem a person can have but bear with me.
The work laptops include a lovely M1 MacBook Pro, and a Dell Somethingorother running RHEL9, which I use for my actual work, and a handful of random Dell and Lenovo laptops for testing OS builds, etc. This is all fine. I am well supplied with work hardware for work.
My personal laptop situation is not so rosy. The most recent laptop I own is a 2010, white, Core 2 Duo MacBook with 4GB of RAM. The other two are an Asus Eee PC 701, and a G4 iBook.
I could use one of the spare work laptops as my personal box, but it feels weird.
So, I'm using the 2010 MacBook as my main laptop until I can justify/afford something nice. It's running Debian 12 with XFCE4 as the desktop. It's fine? The battery life is still passable, and the screen is nice for its age. I have everything I need to do nerd stuff. It's not going to run much in the way of games, but at least I have OpenTTD and a few emulators. That's all I need, right?
At least the 2010 MacBook has a CD drive and normal USB ports.