Old think pads can be had for dirt cheap on eBay, you’ve essentially got a little server you can hide anywhere, you don’t have the keep the lid open (disable sleep on lid close, you can hide it wherever you want now) , ANDmost importantly it has it’s own little integrated UPS :)

Actually think about that shit when I’m trying to sleep

I use arch btw

Joking aside, id love to help you try transitioning to Linux. If you have questions let me know. I recommend easy to use “just works” distros like Mint (Cinammon) or Pop!_OS I love them both dearly and you dont have to be good with a terminal to use them.

Mountains out of mole hills. Non issue

I replied this to someone else gonna put it here:

Kinda a shit take. Canonical is very generous with licensing. They give you 5 free personal licenses per account AND they license per physical host which is practically unheard of now. Like everything is per VM or container or CPUs or sockets etc now. One pro license on an ESXi host could have hundreds of VMs and Canonical is OK with that.

Source: I work with and use ubuntu pro. Canonical’s alright in my book. More than I can say for the RHEL team

Kinda a shit take. Canonical is very generous with licensing. They give you 5 free personal licenses per account AND they license per physical host which is practically unheard of now. Like everything is per VM or container or CPUs or sockets etc now. One pro license on an ESXi host could have hundreds of VMs and Canonical is OK with that.

Source: I work with and use ubuntu pro. Canonical’s alright in my book. More than I can say for the RHEL team