Your laptop is not stateless, it is backed up. What is the difference between running the Dropbox client or any other backup client? Restic or Borg has fewer

Your laptop is not stateless, it is backed up. What is the difference between running the Dropbox client or any other backup client? Restic or Borg has fewer sharp edges than Dropbox does on Linux and is generally going to be lesser maintenance. A stateless system is one that does not keep any (persistent) state.