I have a 5 year old laptop whose display died after 2 years. Rather disappointing that high-end stuff doesn't last and manufactures don't seem to care, but that's another rant. I plugged it into my TV to use for emulators. It's fun to play occasionally, but overall I hate it because of how whiny and high maintenance windows 10 is. Every single freaking time I want to use it, I have to pull it out from under the blu-ray player and reassure it of its insecurities. Every few days it will randomly wake up and start loudly revving its fans up and down too, just to remind me that it exists to torment me.
When I looked into it 5 years ago, there were supposedly issues with it having a non-standard NVME interface firmware or something. There's a good chance that it would just work these days, but in my experience getting linux to run reliably on a laptop that wasn't designed for it can be tricky. It was originally a work laptop, so linux compatibility wasn't originally a consideration.
Maybe I'll whip up a Linux live usb drive and try booting it this weekend!
