I have an iMac from 2008 that I still use, and a Chromebook with Linux chroot for carrying around. But for university I needed something more powerful and capab

I have an iMac from 2008 that I still use, and a Chromebook with Linux chroot for carrying around. But for university I needed something more powerful and capable of running Windows software. I decided to buy a second hand Dell instead of a new Mac for the reasons the author mentions. I installed FreeBSD on it and happily used it for Web browsing and software development. But as soon as I wanted to do more specialised things, I immediately ran into problems. It also took several hours of frustration to get my dual graphics card to work at all, by essentially disabling one. Right now I'm just running vanilla Ubuntu. It supports my hardware, and even runs most of the University software. I did not even bother setting up i3. I just want to do stuff, and not worry about my os.