I feel this, but my other love is gentoo…if only I could get portage to just stop finding more package masks or multiple instances of the same package slot…it’s always something that makes me do another upgrade in an attempt to troubleshoot and it’s usually because I get so caught up in just fixing silly mistakes that I forget to actually get to the eselect news that would have avoided the last stack of 6 compounding issues in the first place.
But I love how fun it is and I’m never leaving no matter what other nix-like cults pop up
I’m pretty sure you could still find a decent thinkpad from ebay that would surprise you how cheap they are