That’s the only way your unrealistic expectations make sense.
Of course, people have been parroting that about Linux on laptops for over a decade. I never understood it, since I’ve never had any significant issues with Linux on my laptops.
And when during 2024 I looked for a replacement after it died, I was so lucky that I got one with an UEFI that refused to load whatever distro I tried from SSD, while having no issues loading the same, if it was on external box over USB.
I have kept a screenshot of the firmware setup for years to remind me where the option can be found; looking at it now:
menu: Security > "Select UEFI file as trusted"
That would bring up a file-chooser where one can navigate the files in the EFI System Partition and select the distro's initial boot-loader file. For example, for a Debian install it would either or both of:
/EFI/debian/shimx64.efi /EFI/debian/grubx64.efi
In fact my first computer was a 1Mhz Apple //e with 128KB of RAM.
You were ahead of the curve on displays and behind the curve on phones and I guess congrats on the 2e start, I had an early Mac.
What does this have to do with the price of CPU cycles in clamshell PCs?
You abstained until ARM because you could see the future and you knew that the specs you demanded we’re gonna be available eventually?
Would you have been okay if Android phones had still been BlackBerry clones 7 years after the iPhone came out?
There’s definitely a balance between the newest of the newest bleeding edge hardware that we could only have dreamed of five years ago, and still functional hardware from five years ago.
Just like engineering is a balance between technical optimization and cost.
Seems like your mindset is one that chooses optimization at any cost, which is pitiable.
I bought an M3 when it was brand new but I also have a Dell XPS laptop that’s running an Intel 8th GEN processor. Both have their uses, and the existence of the M3 does not make the Dell worthless or unacceptable.
And a 27 inch CRT was between 70 and 100 pounds…