Bit late to the party, but I picked up an EliteBook 840 G5 and flashed Fedora to it with little to no issues. Suspend is a dream, the keyboard is meh.

Foliate is lovely on my tablet, and OK on my laptop.

Nano for low-level system crap (config, scripting, etc) and Obsidian/Typora/Insert WYSIWYG editor here for major writing. I’ll utilize LibreOffice if I need something done in a Windows-compliant way.

I use Fedora and a MacBook Pro and I still had a better time than him.

Yes, thank you! Ubuntu, in my opinion, is not a beginner friendly experience. It also tends to break easily, at least in my opinion. I’ve had ongoing problems with Ubuntu, as soon as I installed Fedora all the problems went away.

Gnome is where the heart is for me! It’s just so customizable, the extension framework is such a cool concept. And yes, I know, KDE has a lot of bells and whistles, and I think think that’s why I dislike it. It’s cluttered, Gnome is simple. I like the polish and the smoothness, KDE is nice for people who want more but I’m happy with less. Thanks for coming to my TED talk!

I manage to find the issue, it was my USB drive. The machine is currently humming along with Fedora 42, I’m just now installing Nvidia drivers.

It turned out to be my crappy, no name USB. All OSes boot fine now, even 64-bit. I love when computer shit is simple.

Linux wins the day, viva la Tux!

All checked but I am going to try a different USB.

Original in as far as I can tell.