I can recommend running it on new hardware. I love that it runs great on old hardware, but it is a bit of a disservice to Linux distros that people always experience it on raspberry pies and other old laptops or otherwise relatively slow hardware.
Thank you for the nice write-up. I agree that it is great and whatis very impressive. Also to see old hardware not going to a landfill. I have definitely "fixed" up friend and elderlies computers by installing Ubuntu, and more lately I tried fedora silver blue for a friend. And I too have second hand ThinkPads, a P53 6 core, 64gb, rtx3000 and a t440 and then my work machine is a xps13 (not secondhand). It runs great on all of these and linux is a real workhorse.
I think my point of view come from windows "techies" that seem to be completely oblivious to Linux outside of running it on a Raspberry pi or the like, and linux is only as a way to "save" a computer because windows can't run on it anymore. To me, Linux is a first choice for server, workstations, home use, gaming.. really anything, but I might be biased.. like most of us in this forum 😅😉
2nd hand ThinkPad go brrrrr ( sh.itjust.works ) Englisch