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Incidentally, this is such a great illustration of how fucked up the whole consumerist economy is. The article makes it pretty clear that most people are perfectly happy with the way their computer functions, but they're expected to be buying new ones just to keep the economy going. If people use the computers they currently have that's seen as a negative economically.
I'm currently using an old MacBook from 2015 that I installed LinuxMint on. I am considering a new laptop but nothing comes preloaded with GNU/Linux and I don't want a MacBook. If Huawei brings their HarmonyOS MateBook I might give it a try out of sheer curiosity, but their current offering where I live comes preloaded with Windows and has iffy Linux support.
I'd really love if somebody would make RISCV based Linux laptops that work similarly to Apple's M series where you have a SoC with shared memory. I'm really impressed just how much more performant this architecture is. Also curious if Huawei is doing something similar with their MateBooks.