I judge my Linux experience starting in Summer 1995, the year I got my first Linux distribution, Slackware 2.0, that makes a couple of years in experience.
Try to not see everything as an attack against your identity, detach yourself from it and don't take yourself too seriously. Been there, done that.
Now I have a way more pleasant life experience and people takes me seriously without having me needing to assert who I am. Life is lighter now and I have more friends, people few more comfortable around me.
I'm giving this feedback because I think it will make your life better too.
Was nice to chat with you, now I'll go out for a bike ride while I still a bit of sun over here.
That hardware always felt like a throw away when it came out during the netbook boom from a decade ago.