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by GianFabien 1348 days ago
In my experience hacking Linux on laptops can be a painful experience. WiFi, ACPI, GPU, etc can all be a source of pain and wasted effort. I'd much rather use a desktop and with BSD unless you have specific need to use Linux.

As a further issue with hacking, I find it best to use sacrificial desktop(s) and maintain a separate desktop for all core and admin work. There's no point in breaking my production system* because I've tried something new.

Most of my sacrificial systems are either my older systems or systems I've rescued from clients' dumpsters.