> - or even better, a used Thinnkpad + Linux which would be better than almost anything for 1/2 the cost. I do have a Thinkpad (running NixOS), however the bat

> - or even better, a used Thinnkpad + Linux which would be better than almost anything for 1/2 the cost. I do have a Thinkpad (running NixOS), however the battery life sucks. 2 hours for P71 (or 4 hours for X1C6). And hardware support is not perfect (I simply cannot figure out yet how to connect my Bose QC headphones via bluetooth). So I have high hopes for chromebooks (like Pixel Slate) because then you can have best of the both worlds. The year of Linux desktop is arriving, but not as directly as we have all thought it would.