alt Hacker News> Except it's still a slightly different challenge each time to "get it working", each different PC
Maybe thirty years ago. Not today.
Just go and pick up a second-hand Thinkpad for pennies. Everything will work on it.
> Except it's still a slightly different challenge each time to "get it working", each different PC
Maybe thirty years ago. Not today.
Just go and pick up a second-hand Thinkpad for pennies. Everything will work on it.
Right but a secondhand thinkpad is not a laptop you find in the travel context of the thread.
(I dispute the main point, too — I spent flipping hours trying and failing to get trackpad speed right on a Surface Go in GNOME/Wayland. Ended up having to abandon that combination.)