Oh no…

Hah! Ok I was so confused

Here’s the thing about that, my laptop does have two nvme drives, but the second one is strictly for games. It’s not negotiable.

Unstable? Would you mind elaborating with some examples? I was literally just downloading it

So you convinced me, and not being a novice, I didn’t read the install instructions and just went for it. It wrecked my dual boot efi partition. No worries, been there done that before, spent all morning trying to get the eufi shell and grub sorted out. After a few hours of failing, I’m like hey I planned for this, I’ve got a USB recovery for windows, and my actual data is all backed up via syncthing (thanks to this community). Why am I bothering with this nonsense.

Omg… Recovering windows takes foreeeeever. So then I’m reading the kenoite instructions and it calls out that dual booting doesn’t work, here is a suggested partition scheme… Ffs… Anyway for anyone that doesn’t want to waste an entire day on this, rtfm.

Yeah, now try adding components to it in order to make it a bit more modern, decent RAM, nvme, I’m at 1900. Pass. But hey, I support them and if I had that kind of money, I’d buy it.

I don’t think you could have explained this any better… yeah, this exactly. I don’t want to get a phone call every time the update the damn system. Gnome can be different, simple, that’s fine, but it has to do that and get out of the way. If you make changes to it, it has to respect those changes. Everything else is garbage.

I’m not sure where I ran across it, but here’s their site. Fedora slimbook

Great info thank you. Maybe I’ll just try the kde install first and see how it goes.

Oof, that would annoy me greatly. Obviously those are two of the heavier usage items I’d need.

Perfect, just what I was hoping to hear.

Ok, why opensuse? I kind of forgot about them.

Seems like Fedora Kinoite is getting several votes. Maybe I’ll give that a go for myself. I also like the idea of Fedora more since they are starting to offer their own Laptops with pretty nice hardware it seems.

The idea of buying new laptops that all just have proper OS support seems, novel.

Ooof

Use cases increase if they are thin. Instead of limited to rooftops. For example, take a look at what Aptera is doing.

Gaming on Linux is pretty legit now. I don’t even boot into windows very often. In recent memory, only one AAA game didn’t work out of the box for me that required booting into windows.

There are so many public charging options now, just go to your grocery store and charge while getting groceries. My workplace has a few as well.

If you don’t live where you aren’t using a block heater, you don’t get cold enough to worry about ev usage. But also, plugging an ev in over night is generally how you’ll charge it. Unless you live in an apartment complex that can’t do that. So you’re not “throwing electricity into the wind”

Good news! I’ve got information relevant to you. I grew up in a locale that would drop below 0F for most of the winter. It was NORMAL to get an oil heater and plug it into your 110v 15amp outlet outside.

Well with EV’s you get that same cable, and plug it in and it accomplishes basically the same goal but for the battery instead of the oil. Even better it trickles “fuel” into your “tank” over night.

Or if you splash out dolla bills, you can get a dryer plug installed (240v 50amp) which fully charges your EV in a couple hours and keeps it nice and warm all night.

Everything else is the same, you put snow tires on it, drive to the slopes, skii all day, drive home…one difference though, its heat is available within seconds unlike my old car which took 10+ minutes in subzero temps to heat up and blow warm air. Heck, my EV has heated wiper fluid. That’s pretty cool.

oh… and here’s some extra cool parts… if you do the Airbnb thing somwhere, your “fuel” is included. Just plug it in to their 110v outside outlet. When driving back down the slopes, you know what it does? It CHARGES THE CAR! You get free “fuel”, just for driving back down the hill.

In all seriousness, a couple road trips with mine, in both 100+F and below 32F, I found out that all of those things don’t matter. Yes winter tires wreck the efficiency, yes cold wrecks the efficiency, but it’s still well over 200+ miles. All the extra convenience is so nice, that you really don’t want to go back.

One example, I drove the same route to the beach at different times, one in the winter, I got there with 31% battery remaining. The same trip in the summer I had 55% batter remaining. So, like 1/3rd a tank of gas left, or half a tank of gas. Both are FIIIIINE. Know what I didn’t do? Go to the gas station. I just plugged it in to the slow ass 110 wall outlet since… I’m at the beach for the weekend, in an airbnb… I don’t know how long it took, because it was charged when I was ready to leave. Honestly, how do people not see how convenient this is?

Battery life is pretty widely available for Tesla’s at least since they’ve been around for over a decade now. And like any car, it depends on how the owner drove it and maintained it. Some last forever, some are trash within years.

Didn’t Hyundai announce the Ioniq5 N edition? It’s more like a 600hp thing though, not a 200hp golf kinda thing. More race car than hot hatch.