Comment by brudgers

File under "Falsehoods developers believe about laptops."

I am quite sure no developer out there uses a lowly 2019 laptop for their work. Most probably have 32-core top-of-the-line systems

There are many many casual developers.

And running a current operating system on old hardware is a very common reason for choosing Linux. And broken shit that used to work is a far more critical metric in the real world that anything measured for the article.