Giako

I did the same too.

On the day I received it, I had the feeling that my Steam Deck would end up closed in its case taking dust, once the “new gadget” sensations would have worn out. In fact, something similar happened to me a couple of years ago with Stadia.

But after ~6 months I am still in love with this pocket PC, well after the usual honeymoon. I finally found the best way to play Paradox games and many indie gems right on my couch, reducing the friction that is involved in gaming while being “tied” to your desk.

Now, every 30-40-mins slot is the ideal moment for a gaming session, instead of mindlessly killing time with doomscrolling or casual activities on my phone.

I cannot agree more.

I have purchased the wrist rest, the trackball and the extra key module, after ~5 months of daily usage (9-10 hrs per day) of the "basic" UHK v2.

It's a fantastic keyboard and it is totally worth the expense.

I suggest looking into the Dell XPS line (both 13 or 15 models, depending on your screen size tastes). I own a 2015 Dell XPS 13 and Linux support is amazing (long battery life, the laptop does not overheat and everything works out of the box on Ubuntu). The only weak spot is the webcam location in the lower part of the screen.

Another good alternative could be the Thinkpad Carbon X line, but I don't have any direct experience.

At work I use a mid-2015 Macbook Pro, if you stick to MacOs it's a very good machine. I also have an Ubuntu 17.10 partition on this machine that I use as main daily driver, but there are a few catches with this particular model (slight overheating, battery life is good but not great, I had to manually install drivers for backlight control and webcam).

Web Browser: Chromium, Firefox, Chrome

Email Client: Thunderbird, Web GMail

Terminal: Terminix

IDE: IntelliJ IDEA Community, Eclipse

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: GEdit

PDF Reader: evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice, Google Drive

Calendar: Thunderbird Lightning, Google Calendar

Video Player: Totem

Music Player: Spotify webapp, Spotify client non-free

I personally use ConEmu + babun for my everyday work activity on Windows system. I grow accustomed to it and it's a wonderful replacement when I have to do some lightweight Unixy thing without powering up a VM and when my Ubuntu laptop is out of reach.

Also look, the linked post is 1 year-old... Long before Carmack left id and switched to Oculus (and now Facebook).