I recommend looking for refurbished laptops. As they’d give you better bang for buck. If you do indeed to with refurbished laptop, check everything thoroughly before buying including how long the battery lasts and if the display has any deffects.
People drive in different sides in different parts of the world.
Forget left-right. Use port and starboard.
Mint. LMDE.
As far as my understanding goes, Zed uses the GPU only for rendering things on screen. And from what I’ve heard, most editors do that. I don’t understand why Zed uses that as a key marketing point
Nah, m8, desktop and ChromeOS, these two words don’t go in the same sentence together
Everyone on Lemmy is a chatbot except you.
Smash Bros?
It would indeed be a waste of time. So, no, not worth it.
Whatever comes with the DE. I don’t use it enough to have a favorite.
Could you please elaborate on the freesync issues you were having? I might buy an AMD GPU next, so I’m curious.
Could you mention what apps you needed to run? Also, fractional scaling has been improved a lot in Gnome and KDE, afaik.
Firefox, VLC, LibreOffice
Flatpak is the simplest solution for me.
Yes, but only for apps that which I want to be on the very latest versions. One might ask why I don’t use a rolling release distro, that’s because I prefer a solid LTS base.
Mint with Papirus icons and blue accent colour set to match the folder icons of Papirus them.