Everyone’s made good suggestions, but I wanted to throw out there that I just recently learned Kubuntu actually has been making its own line of custom-made laptops for a while, called Focus. There’s a few different models, and IIRC one or two configurations are below $1000. You’ll definitely save a buck by going with Windows-first options, but if you want to support Linux that’d be one way of doing it.
False, my employer would never also get us breadsticks and dip.
Yeah, overpriced + wellness culture nonsense
Yeah, most people aren’t on social media to see “what their friends are up to,” they’re there for the memes, the culture, the brands (including pop artists), whatever the latest “thing” is. Mastodon doesn’t have any of that, or at least it’s very hard to find.