@quixoticgeek Another point of reference: this would be three *orders of magnitude* more power consumption than current top supercomputers, which seem to sit in the 10-30MW range. Datacenters more powerful than individual supercomputers isn't new, but this is a *thousand* top-end supercomputers' worth of compute power.

You could make a compelling argument this shouldn't exist purely on national security grounds, given what a lot of those supercomputers get used for.

It really is sad just how unusable search has gotten. About 90% the links I follow seem to be LLM-written garbage, or a human doing a passable imitation of the same. So I'm asking people! Using social media to try to be social! what a concept.

Feel free to ask further questions if it'll help, I *want* a conversation rather than a simple answer. I'll probably have more to ask once I have a basic direction, but I'm struggling to even get started rn.

On the ChromeOS front, I did handle one in-store when I went to try the Surface. They're more the size I want, but I won't use anything ChromeOS brings. I'd want to just put full Linux as the sole OS.

From digging, I know this at least used to be doable, but maybe isn't anymore? Or the old ways don't work, can't find the new way? Search is absolutely abysmal these days. There's ways to run a Linux DE inside it but if ChromeOS is bringing me nothing, I'd feel safer just nuking it.

Web search was able to find some dedicated Linux tablets, but mostly marketing fluff. I'm not even sure which ones are still being sold. Does anyone have personal experience with any, that can recommend one?

I do not *need* super high performance, but I do need to be able to play fullscreen video. Being x86 and able to run some of my Steam library is a plus. But mostly I want easy setup and reliability. My days of compiling kernels for fun have long passed.