AIt's not 20
Aassuming x86 chromebooks, not ARM
EI just went for ThinkPad X13 Yoga gen 2, came without any OS, installed Kinoite, happy be me
EWait no Silverblue
EPotato tomato
EIve never even had any laptop for that long personally
AMy sister still has my x230 that she gave to my mom
AThat laptop is from 2013
AAlso they have another junker
AAlso my mom's computer is from 2016 now and she uses it for Lightroom
AStill works perfect
EOh my dad and me still have his laptop from 2010 with a 2nd gen i5, now dual booting windows 10 from one sata SSD and LMDE from the other sata SSD
EGosh I love LMDE
AWe almost bought a Chromebook instead of that junker
AIt would have been EOL at 2015 if we did thst
AStill alive today
Amy parents are using an old Dell Latitude with an i5 from 2015. still actively used and running perfectly fine with Linux today.
IOkay, dumb question, how much storage space do you think btrfs is saving with compression and dupe remove, just a ballpark?
EMy current laptop is from November 2023, and the laptop before that I bought in August 2020, and the laptop before that I bought in early 2017, and the laptop before that was an absolute stinker of a laptop bought in 2012 or 2013
AOverheats 
Misses half of the screws
Randomly turns off
Battery dead
Runs Skype
Misses half of the screws
Randomly turns off
Battery dead
Runs Skype
ESo yeah
ENever really had a laptop for that long
AI want to sAy 20%ish percent
AYeah you as a power user
IThat's substantial
EMy first laptop was an absolute shitter with Windows 8.0
IThat was what really drove my switch
EThe laptop after that was a beast of an Acer Aspire V17 Nitro Black edition that ran Pop!OS really well
EBut it was so large and annoying to bring with me that I got a nice small laptop when I started studying IT
AIm a vista boy
AMy first computer was xp
I98 se thank you
EMy first experience with a pc was on a Windows 98 laptop that went to XP shortly after
ESkipped Vista entirely
IMy first computer was a commodore
EWent straight to 7 and then 8.0
EAnd then 8.1
E8.1 Classic Shell is the best Windows I’ve used personally
IMy first PC the only requirement I had was that it had a cd-rom drive.
AI got a windows xp certification when I was 8
ASorry haters
AIT please hire
IWriting basic code at 8
AIt said I could use paint and word
AAnd something something
EShe hates Windows too, she only sits on laptops that run Windows exclusively (not even joking)
ABecause they run HOT
EShe never sits on my laptop, or the old Asus, or my cousins MacBook
IReally is mind boggling the computing power we carry in our pockets
