My friend had one (maybe an older version) and it wasn't very good quality, kinda felt like crap out the box and broke within a month.
I wish modular controllers caught on as I also never liked the Xbox layout, which has only gotten more common even on 3rd party Playstation pads.
I tried to search for a source to see what license this supposed new init would be using. Couldn't find it in the official or AUR repos and couldn't find a git hosted anywhere.
This article is entirely Ai slop...
It's kinda letter of the law vs spirit of the law.
People got opinions of what open-source should stand for outside of just having the source code available for others to use.
I doubt Mozilla are gonna lock away the source code anytime soon, But their recent antics have rubbed a lot of FOSS people the wrong way.
Anything running the Gnome desktop will work fine.
I also had a Surface Pro 3 running Debian + Gnome. I Gifted it to my father for casual web browsing and It's working great for him.
I got multiple friends who use Linux at work and Windows at home.
Meanwhile the two of us that use Linux at home never worked in anything tech related, we're just massive nerds apparently.
The office job I had before Covid had machines with Windows XP stickers on the front running Windows 10.
Took near 10min to get to the login screen, and you had to remember to save all your work before trying to open an browser because it was semi common for Chrome to crash everything else, sometimes the whole computer. (and yes we were forced to use Chrome...)