I have a laptop - Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th generation - with Intel Core i7-8550U, 16GiB RAM and 2K resolution display. It has the performance hardware and a incapable cooling system with only single one fans. After 6 years, the Microsoft Windows bring it terrible experience, the heavy heating make me feel so bad when I use it in the room without air-conditioning. To save this device, I choose to install a Linux on it.
I have 5 devices could be called computer of my own: 3 desktops, 1 laptop and 1 MacBook. One of the desktops became my homelab server and NAS. 4 computers for me may be too more to use, but they can make sure anyone of them down, that I can still work.
The motivation to write this article is I want to install Linux on my laptop recently. Its CPU - Intel 8th gen i7-8550U - with terrible efficiency-energy ratio, makes me have no any interesting to use it. Then I spent one week (after work) to install and configure Linux on it. The desktop environments of Linux are not good, even though Gnome and KDE can out-of-box, but I still need to configure more things to make them look great and use conveniently. I do not want to spend more time on it.