People are, understandably, so tired of both blockchain and LLM “news”, that posts on the topic will gather a lot of downvotes by the mere mention of it, even the few ones that are insightful and interesting, as opposed to the usuall techbro shill.

Mandrake was the 2nd distro I tried some 25 years ago.

I’m hearing good things about Framework, provided you get the hinge upgrade.

If you need something beefier, personally I’m using a Lenovo Legion 7 (2024 version… that white one, bought it a few months ago), and I’m loving it. Linux Mint worked out of the box, but I chose to replace the stock wifi driver with a better one.