Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. There’s better distros out there.

Especially when you have no interest in gaming.

I’m not us gaming though I do dev work and what have you

Bazzite isn’t really for you. Bazzite is a gaming 1st distro. You probably want a more normal general use distro.

The bedtime reminders on the Apple watch are a godsend. Not as obnoxious as an alarm, not as ignorable as a reminder. It’s just unique enough that I’m gonna notice it.

And when you see how bad their windows support is it’s a miracle anyone buys this garbage.

It’s a neat concept. But at the moment only Apple has pulled it off well. And that’s only if you stick with Mac OS.

Considering that they sell Pixels at normal stores, unlike the Nexus devices that came before them. It shouldn’t be any wonder that there’s a lot of normal people using them. Especially when only google was offering long software support for Android phones.

I have a computer at work that has like 10 phones plugged into it. Opening “this PC” part of file explorer freezes it for about 5-10 minutes. It’s a very fun issue when I forget about. Normally I just avoid that screen.

It’s a fun bug.

Oh yeah, no problem. I ran dual 4k displays of of Intel HD 4600 for years.

I’d say spend decent money on your main monitor, then just find some random trash picked display for a secondary later on. I’m using my 28" 4k 144hz display next to a 1280x1024 display. Having two different resolutions isn’t too bad, but you will want their scaling settings to match. Windows handles mixed scaling resolutions relatively well, but some programs still dont.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NMZLZ57R3T7

You can still buy it yourself. It’s only $1.

It depends more on the specs of your computer imo. If you have a GTX 1050 you should probably should stick to a smaller 1080p display. If you have something that can actually run your games then yeah get a bigger 1440p.

That said I had a 25” 1440p display for years and I loved it. Just high enough ppi that you don’t need scaling in windows. But you can absolutely tell the difference in game. You pretty much don’t need anti aliasing. 2x and the game looks flawless.

That said I’m a heavy multi tasker and I need two screens.

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Using an older OS is only a security issue if you actually do stuff with it. If you’re downgrading just to reinstall a newer OS then what malware is going to exploit your phone in that short period of time?

As others have said the real issue will probably be running old firmware for other things like your modem. But even then someone still has to be looking to explicitly exploit that.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-10-kb5072653-oob-update-fixes-esu-install-errors/

Looks like there’s an issue installing the extended support updates should you subscribe to it. So it makes sense to just give everyone the update.

Also sometimes when there’s security issues that MS thinks are absolutely critical they’ll release those updates to everyone. Windows 7 got a few.

What are the updates? Is it Windows getting the update, or Windows defender/programs that use windows update for updates?

As far as I’m aware even windows 7’s windows defender still gets updates.

NVM looks like that one got EOLed too

Find an app for your phone/watch that wakes you up at the end of your sleep cycles. When you’re in deep sleep you tend to be pretty still, but when you’re at the end of a sleep cycle is when you typically move around a night. There’s apps that will wake you up when it’s almost your alarm time, but you’re moving around.

Also try to maintain a consistent sleep schedule. Eventually you can kinda figure out your own sleep cycles and try to work with them instead of against them.

Most current Gen. thinkpads have fully upgradable ram. The T4XX/14 series had half soldered ram until a year or two ago. SSDs have basically always been replaceable.

They’re also very easy to work on since it’s only a couple of screws and you have full access to the inside of the machine. Those older thinkpads were nightmares if you had to take the whole mobo out. Even MacBooks were easier.

You can only “roll back” to 10 if you just upgraded from 10 to 11. If you bought something new then you can’t “roll back” to something that was never there.

Also if it’s a newer laptop expect a lot of things to be broken or work poorly. A lot of new hardware has come out post Windows 11.

Iris xe is what the iGPU is called. Execution units is what intel calls the amount of “processors” in the GPU.

If the laptop only has single channel memory they can only advertise it as “Intel Graphics” or something like that. As soon as you put the second stick in it magically renames itself to “Iris Xe”. It’s mostly just marketing.

What budget do you have/what are you goals both gaming and otherwise?

If you’re buying something with an iGPU then for gaming don’t even bother thinking about the CPU. The GPU is going to be holding you back way more. Also IGPUs don’t normally have dedicated vram. They just use system memory.

Intels 11th-14th Gen. all have the same IGPUs and the higher end ones are reasonably capable. Core 100 brought Arc IGPUs which are also a big step up, but idk if they’re very cheap yet. AMDs IGPUs are still so much better so try to aim for AMD if you can.

I have the startech usb kvm. It’s expensive new, but used it can be pretty cheap.

https://www.startech.com/en-us/kvm-switches-accessories/notecons01?srsltid=AfmBOorkwy-lfw8bfGyWO5qu2NWQPUt9LGTeMR_-blosZkMcY1mOsfBI

It’s based on the speed limit of the road. Yellow means proceed if safe or stop if safe. The faster it is the longer the yellow. And usually the longer the time between it turning green on the other side should you pull a whoopsie.