I could have bought a nice M1 or M2 but instead I modded an X230 and T430 up instead!

Honour in Ukraine, but no honour amongst thieves

Used both of these for years and years, no issues.

30y/o with chronic fibro here too, the OG deck is nice but thinking about getting the OLED because it's lighter, I use mine primarily for playing OSRS or Elden ring. Also lots of hockey!

Do you find it's too heavy for long periods of time?

I hope this comment is helping OP on his grammar, rsther than being picky...

Edit: Jeez saw your history, it's all corrections lol

Edit: rsther

Also 30, withering away, chronic incurable disease, disowned by family, homeless, broken shin, traumatised, living like Anne Frank. Hello from the otherside!

(Atleast the world is going to burn)

Nope, I usually pay the Mullvad tax :)

It's nice, low effort now it's setup! Just messing around with firewalling :)

MANGOHUD comes with steamOS so you just pass those flags to launcher options, it should work, if you want to see the HUD just remove ,nodisplay=0

It's a nice and clean Linux distro, Alpine is great for being lean and you can get around any portential glibc problems with flatpak/chroots/virtualisation if you don't mind, also aports (the build system) it's pretty straightforward. the package repositories are decent and flatpak does the rest I find.

I've run it as a general purpose fix-it drive for a long time but it's good for servers or routers, or decent enough on a laptop/desktop, it's more of a hands-on approach than most other distros so I'll find myself on the Gentoo or Arch wikis a bit of the time.

It has it's quirks like any distro but it's very nice once you're used to how it works, it generally avoids complexity. I like it in that regard.

Try using mangohud to cap it, I set it at 35fps cap running on high/med settings with something like MANGOHUD=1 MAHGOHUD_OPTIONS=fps_limit=35,nodisplay=0

Make sure to disable the steam frame limiter and allow tearing (helps with input).