I was recently in a similar boat, as the combination of discord + twitch was really making my 11 year old i5-2520M-based T420 really show its age (WHY IS A DESKTOP CHAT CLIENT AN ELECTRON APP??!??!) even with 16 GiB RAM in Arch Linux. I settled on a 16GB X13 Gen 2 from the outlet store (which seemed like a deal at ~520 USD). Coincidentally that's where I bought the T420 in 2011. The outlet store seems like a good way to snag a bargain for Linux users if you have a bit of patience as I would be looking at a last-gen model anyway (which seems to be primarily what the store stocks) for better compatibility.
dathinab|3 years ago
Because the current software development approach/practices/tools used close to everywhere are fundamentally flawed driving software development cost to absurdity and making it not viable to not use electron (which allows you to reuse most of the web-client code). At best you get a specialized version for phone apps, but even that is often not worth the money.
And it's not something as simple as "just use approach X" or "tool Y" or "language Z" it a much more complex, subtle and deeply rooted problem across all of the industry, universities and other people driving the software industry.
opan|3 years ago
prmoustache|3 years ago
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loser777|3 years ago
My particular deal seems to be gone now, but they come and go periodically. I also didn't bother with the (bait?) models at the top of the page that never seem to be in stock.