I have one I paid a little more for a year ago. So likely the same things internally.

I use it occatioally on my boat with a mini pc or pi 400.

The only negative is the usb c power port dose tend to get disconnected. And it takes about 15secs to reinitialise.

This really is only an issue when trying to use in unstable ways. On the whole well worth what I paid at the time.

I now have 2 newer non touch screen 18 inch ones. One 4k one 2k at an comparable higher price. I’m happy but the general usb connection loos es and reconnection delays are identical.

I hate facebook messenger, its buggy as hell”, “try signal then”, “no.

If your goal is to rant about these people. Yep you may have an audience. Not me I’m a very old user who just doesn’t find much of the modern arguments interesting. Unless they relate to actual changes in how Linux works.

If on the other hand your goal is to change minds. Then taking an in-depth approach to how to use alternatives will both help more. And get you more viewers looking to change.

I’d also subscribe and point friends and family to useful vids.

slackware followed by red hat mothers day 2.0 also used LMDE for several years

Agreed. As I say blender is less fast on amd. Atm

I don’t play games much. 0ad being the main exception.

But yeah I’d never advise a non blender user to go Nvidia.

Yeah. Unfortunately blender is still noticably faster on Nvidia cards. Due to cuda and optic support.

I only have a 4060 though. Next time I upgrade, give. How bad the 50s release is. I will look again and compare higher end amd stuff. Likely a few years away though.

i been linux only for over 30 years now.

I tend to use Debian stable. At least for the last 15 or so.

The reason is simple. I use it as my main PC and the stability is my main priority.

The only negative is software in the repos is often out of date.

But honestly while that was a pain in the past. Now for the vast majority of things I use. I find flat pack or appimage downloads work perfect ally.

The only exception is ham radio software. Here I tend to compile later versions if I need/want them.

Other negatives

I’m really not hugely into gaming. But use blender a lot. Due to this I use Nvidia cards as they are far better supported by blender.

Installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers is a bit of a pain on Debian for newbies. But once you know the process its simple enough. Just not obvious for beginners. The community drivers are still very limited thanks to Nvidia s weird ideas.

Nice to meet a fellow old fart linux user.

Yep, there are ways to do a full installation onto a thumb drive.

While It’s not exactly complex. It does tend to require more understanding of how file system mounting works than the audience OP is indicating would have.

It is likely time to create a user/id10t friendly app designed to download and fully install any ISO as a live thumb drive.

That will still need some help for odd hardware. But for most it would be a fair option.