I was 23 and it was the summer of ‘98. I was fed up with how often windows crashed on me. I wanted to finish my semester in college and once I did I nuked Linux and installed Red Hat Linux which I had bought in Costco. Didn’t know how to do anything in Linux. Tackled the command line and loved it. From there I set up all sorts of servers for fun. At one point I ran network cabling between my room and my brother’s room. I had a file server to serve a samba share for our mp3s and had a printer server setup we could use to both print off a single printer. None of this could be done with anything off the shelf. At least not that I knew of. I think of that time and have fond memories of. I still have that server in my parent’s garage somewhere.

Linux

Don’t make the mistake I did and go with mac. Apple has great products but they used planned obsolescence to make you waste money on new equipment on a regular basis. Windows just bites. So go with a Linux laptop for sure. Your money will stretch out further for sure. Thinkpads X1 Carbón are great. Older generations have great battery life. If you game there’s other thinkpad a that have graphics carda. Thinkpads work great with Linux usually. Specially carbon x1

Librewolf looks good