I gotta tell you, I full dropped iterm2 due to performance issues several months ago. I'm not sure what changed but it would regularly run my pro fan through the roof, hardware accel on or off.
Compared to Terminal (which they put a lot of work into, it's leaps and bounds better than it was a couple years ago) which never seemed to have the issue, has all the features I was using, and I can now make look not-shit enough to be easy on the eyes.
Old Xeons have a niche use as perfect freenas hosts (it's cheap to get 8g+ ECC memory) as long as you're smart enough to shut them off when you aren't using them.
I really want to get on the Thinkpad meme. I really do, I like my t500 I use for docker stuff.
The problem is there are a lot of newer models that either have dogshit touchpads, dogshit screens, dogshit wifi cards, or (in the case of edges) all 3.
Yeah you can replace a bunch of parts (except for the wifi which is bios locked) but at that point I'd be better off buying an Acer Aspire E15 or something else remotely modern.
(Yes I know you can flash the bios to get around the bios lock. I also don't care. I shouldn't have to do this.)
For now. The IBM sale made it a no brainer for us to migrate off CentOS last year. They 'could' not mess up Red Hat but I'm not betting against IBM's track record.
I don't see this going anywhere. Anyone seriously pushing this will just be replaced. Chinese companies will probably take the US approach and just ignore/cover up the whole thing, or make some handwavey pithy gestures.
Compared to Terminal (which they put a lot of work into, it's leaps and bounds better than it was a couple years ago) which never seemed to have the issue, has all the features I was using, and I can now make look not-shit enough to be easy on the eyes.