Price/UI/capabilities/endurance
Monitor: 16×10 display 1440p but a notch taller. 24inch matte display, full color gamut 120hz variable refresh rate
CPU/GPU should be supported for a long time and have good power use. hardware decode and encode is nice. GPU good enough for applications desired. CPU is probably good enough already.
Laptops are great for power if power goes out, but storage is an issue. discrete longterm storage, physical
Operating system rolling release with apt
filesystem btrfs LVM but that adds complexity
Home server/NAS owncloud,selfhost raid, drives, backup scripts. blob storage
Slab –integration with slab
Configuration
Quick Launch upper left, browser links to common websites
Taskbar left with readable list of tasks
system tray lower left
clock lower left
taskbar windows can cover
Start Menu uppermost left, start menu shows about 7 options, categorized.
system starts fresh every restart. (reopening session when it gets corrupted means that restarting will not clear corrupted session, so I can’t just tell people to restart the computer)
file system set to details and show filename extensions
always show scrollbars