A Fairphone with e/OS/ on it.

Good tip! I had heard of them, but they fell off the list somehow. I’ll add them in soon. thank you!

Can access this via Duck AI, and compare to other models on the fly.

Currency? I thought it was a payments handler to rival Visa and MasterCard.

Lots of alternatives on this website https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html

I installed Mint in a cheap mini PC to self host, and have had problems with external USB storage drives.

They kept dismounting, until I realised you have to give them a permanent mount location (why?!).

And they kept losing power because Linux had a default setting that USB devices ‘auto suspend’ after some time. This took ages to diagnose, and command line stuff to fix 😔

Other than that it seems to be a solid distro.

Also - I think these distros should make it simpler to partition the SSD on install. I used to easily do that when building Windows PCs but it was not clear I was making the right choices with Mint, so I went with the default.