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  • Depends on their specific needs, so they should probably jump into some Linux community and ask for themselves.

    My anecdotal evidence includes vastly different experiences.

    I have a friend who hates Linux desktop and exclusively uses it for running dev related stuff via WSL.

    Another who uses Linux desktop primarely, but dualboots Windows for certain games.

    And I am on Linux single boot and rarely use KVM (without GPU) for running my CNC or other software.


  • Minisforum V3 is 12” and less than 1kg.

    But it is not quite a laptop, expensive and very powerful - not sure if that suits you.

    Linux wise, most of the stuff works (sleep, power profiles, volume buttons, fingerprint reader, face recognition, pen, touchscreen). Things that don’t work are automatic rotate/accelerometer.

    I’m super happy with it, running arch, doing development and using VMs.


  • You can either decide by what is currently in demand in the industry and then pick a project that you can exercise that language with or you can think of a project you’d like to do and then go by what the best language is for a given project.

    In the end, languages are just like different wrenches. First you have to learn how to use a wrench, size or features don’t matter much at this point (unless you already know that you want to become an expert with one particular wrench).

    I think starting a new project is way easier than contributing to an existing one.








  • As far as I can see it is just Debian with LXDE, firefox ESR and some other packages preinstalled.

    If they respect the license, you as a user can ask for the source code by e-mail.

    But from my point of view, you can just install plain old Debian and all the same software and get a long term proven OS that will not randomly disappear and a huge userbase for support questions.