I tried it for a couple of months when it first came out. At that early point it wasn’t too bad for usability. But, after a decent look around it, I wiped it and went back to Linux on my laptop.

Well, it does boot most of the time. So it’s not completely broken, just majorly broken…

As a CEO, you get to decide if your company invests in this BS. So your job can be quite safe if you choose.

I’m running Fedora Cinnamon with Celeron N95, 8 gigs of shared memory, and Intel HD graphics with a little mini desktop. Runs fine. You have a better processor and if you have 8gigs of memory, you should be more than fine for office needs, web browsing, and light gaming to get your feet wet. Heavy coding or gaming might be a bit of a stretch with your ThinkPad though. I find heavier CAD sessions can be a heavy chore if the renderings get hard, like modeling threads or even moderate assemblies.

KiCAD is available for most distros. You can even get it via flatpak

It wasn’t about the lines. It was always about the switches. And while they are no longer actual hardware, but rather software, those are still the what makes phones work.

You mean cooking breakfast on the smoldering corpse of your laptop.

Old or rare does not make something valuable or collectable. I’m old and a one of a kind, but that doesn’t make me valuable. I ain’t worth much at all anymore.

What makes something collectable and other things not? Age doesn’t much factor into it all the time, sometimes it does. See: Baseball cards, comic books, Beanie Babies or Barbie Dolls, and Lego kits. And the collectable needs to rare enough to not be seen every day, but have just enough of them around that collectors can have a reasonable hope of getting them.

So who knows, people collect the dumbest shit. From pretty rocks to 1930s kitchen gadgets and Barbies. Maybe someday people will be collecting to soda lids and straws.

Ahhh, yes. The Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

No Vim! Vi only! Yes I know if you type “vi filename.txt” you get Vim. That’s not the point. Vi is nearly 50 years old. Have some respect.

As a certified Old Man^tm running Fedora Kinonite 43, it’s very Old Man^tm proof.

Now Grandma on the other hand… I swear she can cause even an iPad to burst into flames at a mere glance.