By "tea", they could mean "dinner" ( if they're from Yorkshire)., so watch out.

This is what my mates who work in the kitchen tell me as well. The gunnk is part of the recipe it seems.

Best resource when I was researching. Should help you too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad

We'll have to wait and see...

I find hard toiImagine GOS went into a deal without clearly defining the parameters of the partnership, which in my silly mind assume it to include the specifications of the hardware, desired price point, amongst the many many other things.

Also an $800 phone would be $150 on the used market in the same few years.

Meanwhile there are some dudes from the West running around factories in China right now getting a custom phone built to their specifications. And somewhere between the two extremes lie a multitude of outcomes that would have been far better than this one.

I'd like to hear GOS official rationale to this one.

If Graphene is reading this: You just lost me and my family. Will look for other options. Woo hang on to the Pixels till we can't.

Your car will also outlive any phone by decades...

How do you think Google and Microsoft got that way? Unchecked leadership. People are up in arms not because they don't see value in what Proton has done for the ecosystem, but for the very reason.

Your domesticated fat cat could probably use some exercise instead of a vegan diet.

I walked away the samw way I walk away from "no-cash" stores. They can keep thief website and lattes to themselves.

They can now ditch the dumpster fire of an OS that is Windows and lobby for the adoption of a corporate choke-point on Linux while continuing to bludgeon the remaining bits of your dignity and soverignity. At least this could be so for enterprise Linux.

Vanilla Debian or LMDE. Caveats are:

1. that you dont intend to seriously game on it, and
2. have at least 8GB RAM (for a smooth GNOME desktop experience).

Use system packages as much as you can and only use Flatpaks if you need the latest and greatest of a certain app (example being the LibreOffice suite for better document compatibility).

Learn how to backup your system with Timeshift and your data with Pika. You'll have a really wonderful system that you can will serve you well and at the same time be a good base to improve your Linux knowledge.

This is what worked for me when I first started. My workstation still runs Debian many years. Its rock solid and I have no reason to change to anything else.

My only regret its that I didn't move to Linux sooner. God luck on your journey.