Aside from performance, I also noticed that older PC games work better on Linux than Windows nowadays. I really enjoy playing games from the late 90's to early 2000's, and they tend to run great on Linux with proton. Just the last year I've played all of Baldurs Gate 1, Icewind Dale 1 and Icewind Dale 2 on my scrappy Lenovo laptop and it's been great.
Decker108
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I use joe regularly for in-terminal editing. It's easy, lightweight and very helpful, unlike vi...
Are... are we the ~~baddies~~ one percent?
I use an ESP32-C3 with Risc-v as my daily driver (for reading air quality sensor data off of a custom circuit) but I don't think that's what OP is getting at.
I've (almost) always had good experiences with Lenovo laptops, especially T-series or X1 Carbon.
Will the future be better tomorrow?
I just got my Starfive Visionfive2 this week, and yeah... not as easy to use a Raspberry Pi just yet.
Just don't expect a smooth user experience yet, its' software is still very much WIP. Google hasn't even finished RISC-V support in Android yet.
I imagine OP had a neckbeard, belt and suspenders and was carrying a copy of Gödel-Escher-Bach.
Your setup is close to my 2015 very-much-non-gaming laptop, so... I'd recommend retro gaming and/or modern 2D games. A few suggestions would be: Baldur's Gate 1-2, Icewind Dale 1, Xenonauts, Battle Brothers, Wildermyth, Shadowrun Returns (and sequels), Into the Breach, Fallout 1-2. If you're into programming games, that hardware should run everything by Zachtronics as well as Human Resource Machine and 7 Billion Humans.
The uutils project is aiming for full compatibility though, so eventually you will be able to just swap them out.