why should you have to? it's a really bad choice by the distro maintainers.
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mesa is outdated by default, not supporting rx 7000 cards unless you use the edge iso.
plasma has wayland support, tons of customizability, better multi monitor support, a great suite of applications including a text editor with lsp support and much more, and in general looks nicer. cinnamon is sort of the bare minimum
outdated mesa, monitor scaling, cinnamon in general being outdated
probably not a good idea, you'd have to upgrade quite soon. take a look at centos or rocky Linux instead, they're both down stream from fedora
Would this actually improve efficiency though or just reduce the manufacturing and development cost?
yeah, but you could improve the not ideal encoding with a relatively simple update, no need to throw out all the tools, great compatibility, and working binaries that intel and amd already have.
its also not the isa's fault
i got mine on an insanely good deal paying less than ⅓, normally it would've cost >$2500
really fucking expensive though
If anyone is looking for a good 2-in-1 i would suggest the newer generations of the Thinkpad X1 Yoga, i haven't had a single issue with the 6th gen and fedora. GNOME is really great for touch screens too.
Wayland has objectively better multi monitor support in every case. You were encountering tearing issues before switching, maybe you just didn't notice.