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  • My desktop which is running a i7-6700k from 2015 out performs all of the <$400 laptops that I could find on every metric and had higher multi core but lower single core for the $400-$600 range. I was unable to find a desktop that was <$800 that was better, so I would surmize that the desktop market won’t have a meaningful price/performance % in comparison to the laptops. At the very least with the insanity of graphics & memory prices at the moment, the budget systems are getting smoked by a desktop from 2015, even while purposefully omitting the 2070 I have because that was a newer addition and pretty much all of the systems are running poor quality integrated graphics anyway.













  • Packages != kernel, so probably not. I don’t know how power usery you want to be, if fine with some tinkering then staying with arch makes sense and as I said in the prior post I recommend endeavoros. If you want no tinkering, kubuntu is fine I would just lookup snaps and see what you are getting yourself into, and if that turns you away I would recommend mint lmde.



  • I don’t know how old your hardware is, but iirc cachyos’s kernel specifically doesn’t support older hardware, so it could be that it is just too old. If I were you I would try out endeavoros if you can deal with a little more technical package management or you could use the base arch kernel on cachy. Of course your switch to kubuntu should continue to work assuming it was a kernel issue, I just don’t like canonicals vision.