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  • As for the age of your laptop, it’s perfectly fine. I still use one from 2011 and it’s doing great.

    However if this is your only computer, don’t risk it until the USB ports are fixed. Someone already mentioned but if you have an SD card slot, it might be your way out. Backup your files that way and you can upgrade with peace in mind. Though there is even a newer version now so it’s better to fresh install rather than upgrade twice. After you move your files somewhere else, you can use an SD card to install Linux as well.










  • Sure, I can do that.

    • If you’re looking for something lightweight, go for st or urxvt. These are Xorg-only.
    • If you want to configure it via GUI, xfce4-terminal is the middle ground for lightweight and feature-rich. If you are on KDE, konsole would suffice. You can use these on Xorg and Wayland.
    • If you want to work with multiple panes in a single window, terminator is your friend. Used this on Xorg but not sure about its Wayland compatibility.
    • If you want GPU acceleration and more features, kitty and alacritty is out there. Both should work on Xorg and Wayland.
    • If you want something like st but pure Wayland, foot is the best lightweight terminal emulator. My current personal favourite.






  • Since it’s ELI5, I’ll try to be as clear as possible. Windows and Linux distros are different operating systems, so their programs are their own. If there isn’t a compatibility layer present (or an emulator) you won’t be able run a program written for the other system. What Steam does on Linux is, it uses a compatibility layer (Proton) to run Windows games. Proton is Valve’s version of WINE with some specific improvements, mostly targeting Steam games. That’s how Steam Deck works. You can think the other way around of this is Microsoft’s WSL (not exactly).

    So, because of there needs to be a compatibility layer, it might not always work as intended for some games (though numbers are decreasing with every update). Most of these games are games that use an anti-cheat, though Valve included Linux versions of BattlEye and EasyAntiCheat in Proton, and if a developer uses it, there is no problem for that game. For example, Hell Let Loose works fine because of this. Note that, some games will use kernel level anti-cheat (or currently using), those games won’t run at all.

    From what I found, there is also a possibility that you might have a hard time with some older games that use a custom-built engine. I mostly encountered this with some Japanese games. Though, those games usually don’t work on something over Windows 7 too.