In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the 400 EUR range. I ended up picking an ASUS Eee PC 1201PN. It was new and the first computer in my life that was 100% mine, but awfully slow for a lot of tasks. It was so slow that I ended up giving Linux a go as a result. Linux! I didn’t even know computing all that well around that time! A few years later, I bought a ThinkPad T60 off of someone I knew for about 40 EUR. It was about 8 years old at that point, but ...
