Eh, you can just buy $200 ThinkPad and it’ll be fine :)

Knowing Canonical and Ubuntu it is probably still suported and it will be for the next decade.

I mean if it works, what’s the problem? Do these often break down?

Linux is pretty common in embedded devices. For example information screens in buses in my city (Kraków) which display stuff like next stops, OSM map, time, etc. run some kind of customized Linux distribution I think, and you can often see bunch of Tuxes along with console output when it boots up.

Does that take into account that AI models will become more efficient with time?