These are a nice idea, but it's still nowhere near what a desktop PC with standard components offers. A cheap B450 board will last me a decade at least. Start

These are a nice idea, but it's still nowhere near what a desktop PC with standard components offers. A cheap B450 board will last me a decade at least. Start with a 2700x, upgrade all the way to a 12 core or even 16 core Ryzen 9. No thermal issues. 64+ GB of RAM, plenty of room to play with voltages and clocks everywhere, will actually run Linux without ridiculous issues. Wifi handled by an external router with dual radios and Openwrt. Add a Li-Ion UPS if I'm going to a place with bad power supply. I swore off desktops for laptops a decade ago but then they turned to locked down shit. No thanks.