Yea, never owned one. But anytime I do research on em I read how the hinges break in a few months etc.
They spend so much making them powerful but cheap out on casing materials.
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For the price you would pay for that you could build your own PC.
If you don’t have space for it then the Steam Deck or (soon) Machine is a great out of the box Linux experience.
yep, hinges + heat kills 'em fast. plus vendors lock any GPU switching behind buggy firmware that barely works on linux.
steam deck is the easy button: runs every proton-compatible game, weighs way less, and if something breaks you swap the ssd in 20 mins instead of praying lenovo sends the right palm-rest.
I thought the steam machine was a different OS from linux?