buckykat [none/use name]

VPNs work fine in China. The point of the great firewall is to keep Facebook et al out, not to keep anybody in.

The Microsoft Surface is known to be especially difficult to get working with non-Microsoft software.

The stylus pen for my Thinkpad X1 Yoga gen 4 works perfectly out of the box in PopOS.

I simply stopped using Manjaro, this resolved all system-level issues I had encountered.

Switching from paid streaming services to piracy is at least as important as switching from Windows to Linux, probably much more so.

Look at 2-in-1 laptops instead of pure tablets. I use a Thinkpad X1 Yoga gen 4 primarily for note taking, Xournal++ is my favorite note taking application.

The difference in build quality between ideapad and thinkpad is significant

I recently upgraded from an Ideapad FLEX-14API to a 4th gen Thinkpad X1 Yoga, I really like the folding back on itself tablet/laptop style machines.