Laptops are typically designed and manufactured to a price-point. Increasingly, I'm finding it easiest to just use the laptop with the OS it was supplied with.

Laptops are typically designed and manufactured to a price-point. Increasingly, I'm finding it easiest to just use the laptop with the OS it was supplied with. For the daily-driver I find a modern ChromeBook suitable. Then ... I use a Debian mini-tower for development and hacking work. No need to run iffy webapps, etc on it. Used to mostly use NetBSD for older server oriented hardware. But increasingly using Alpine Linux instead.