Darkrai

I found a thinkpad with a radeon GPU for only 200 which was nice.

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.

Were you running Wayland by any chance?

Which half am I in?

ChatGPT isn’t a search engine. Its just a more powerful version of the tool that you see suggesting the next word to use on your phones keyboard.

Its guessing how sentences should look based on ones it saw in the past. That means it makes stuff up

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 just installed TrueNAS on a desktop with a lot of SATA slots. https://www.truenas.com/

This is my recommended gaming distro, its actually works from my experience unlike the 3 different arch based distros I tried.

It depends on the person and their experience obviously, but for me, trying Linux back in 2020 felt like when I was new to computers in general and was poking around and learning Windows XP for the first time. It was fun seeing all the different settings options and features that were new to me.