Ones of the reasons I like Pop, they install a recovery partition with a copy of the install USB, finally they have a ‘factory reset’ that reinstalls the OS while keeping the users home folders.
Ones of the reasons I like Pop, they install a recovery partition with a copy of the install USB, finally they have a ‘factory reset’ that reinstalls the OS while keeping the users home folders.
You can try making a virtual machine with a 20 GB virtual hard drive to try out different Linux distros in the meantime.
Then the VPN has your data, and also your ISP depending on how secure your setup is
Were you running Wayland by any chance?
This person made a pretty good video essay on the topic. They theorize among other things that its a sort of way to mentally prepare themselves in case they’re in the same situation.
I was able to use this guys docker image and tool in order to cross compile my Rust programs in the past. They were very simple programs so I dont know how well it works for larger projects.
They run them through QA at least and work directly with Nvidia to fix any issues they notice. They dont catch everything of course but its still good.
If you want to support Linux devs and continued development, I would buy from System76, Tuxedo Computers, or even Framework.
If you’re going to buy used then yeah the Thinkpad is fine.
I found a thinkpad with a radeon GPU for only 200 which was nice.