Another vote for nextcloud.

Or synchthing if you want something that is serverless, but does not support sync on demand.

It’s a lot better than having that CPU on Windows.

Yikes.

I thought it was the GNU wizards circle that decides these things.

Are you telling me I have been going to the wrong meetings?!

I swear this Linux fragmentation will be the death of it.

It’s also a reflection of how much money you will be spending on each ecosystem

I don’t know Blender, but from experience I found that Manjaro/arch is a bit too bleeding edge for production use. Especially when it comes to non-gaming graphics. I experienced a lot of problems with Manjaro and GPU acceleration in video editing suites. All got solved when I switched to Linux Mint.

Similarly Zorin OS 17 has been good to me. I really like their approach to the Gnome UI (i.e. they kept the newest tech, and removed the space wasting UI components.

The Ubuntu based distros typically have fewer bugs as they typically have an older base.

Fedora is also a decent middle ground.

I would suggest logging a ticket or forum post with Blender on this. It could be a blender bug or a graphics bug, but they would be the best people to advise.

I would favour an AMD Ryzen 7000 based laptop. Much better battery life than Intel and better graphics performance.

Lenovo ThinkPad T and P series are excellent build quality.

Asus Zenbooks or Expertbooks with OLED screens are also excellent. Displays are on par, or superior to Macbooks. Excellent colour accuracy.

Make sure you get something with at least 16GB of Ram, or 32GB if available.

DRM only affects paying customers. It plays no role in effectively combatting piracy.

Only good service and good pricing is effective against piracy.

I got great battery life improvements with TLP.

I also found that AMD laptops do a lot better on idle power draw. Getting 12 hours of video playback out of my Asus Zenbook 14 compared to 10 hours on windows.

Another vote for the framework. They are the only manufacturer actively supporting Windows and Linux.

Half of India tech industry still runs on windows 7.

The sluggishness you experienced has a lot to do with Ubuntu itself. At its base it’s a very good OS, but canonical is messing up on the details.

Ubuntu derivatives like Linux Mint or PopOS have spent a lot of time resolving this. They perform very well for most and have got excellent stability because their software stack is a little older.

For gaming, fedora is probably the base OS that most prefer at the moment. It’s at a good balance point of stability the latest tech.

The other option if you want to go more bleeding edge is Manjaro, but expect some things to break on occasion.

To clarify, I changed my bookmark to be the subscription page

My YouTube homepage has been set to the subscriptions tab for 7 years now.

There is sure to be some of that, but they will at least get the blame for when it goes poorly.

They are obligated by many of their corporate and government clients to patch any security flaws and fix bugs.

I would prefer that they don’t touch what is working and just focus on fixing bugs and security issues.

This moving feature set and release of half finished software approach is why people have hated windows so much since the windows 8 days.

Mint is a really good distro for people coming from windows 7 UI wise.

They also ripped out Snaps, which is half the performance problems with Ubuntu

I would support a law that requires software companies to open source software that they discontinue support on.

That way, companies that disappear don’t have their customers at risk.

And software companies will support software for longer.

Year of the Steamdeck. Praise Gaben!

I think power draw is a better measurement for efficiency.

Making it more practical. Most people have more RAM than they need, but everyone is limited by battery capacity on laptops.

I suspect that packaging has a lot to do with it. I also value power draw as a better metric for determining efficiency compared to RAM usage.

I found a lot of the same. For me I resolved this by changing a few things.

1. Abandon KDE plasma and Gnome.
2. Avoid Snaps like the plague.

Linux mint Cinnamon draws 5w on idle only laptop. Ubuntu stock draws 8w. Manjaro plasma uses around 7w.