what the heck that looks so cool! (i like the little robot icon on the bg)

nice! highly recommended. if you are going to switch to sway, i personally prefer swayFX, which is basically sway but with a lot of cool eyecandy features

This looks straight up like Discord and i like it.

yay! another company damaging itself!

Tried bottles, had the same issue. In the end, i found out that trying to install the rockstar games launcher left some kind of auto updater on my system. I ran it, and it just installed the launcher.

Where do you live? Where i live, i can pick up old thinkpads for maybe around 200 euro.

Just don't get a modern HP laptop, or any old ones for that matter. They're crap (personal experience). If you are not planning on playing modern AAA games then probably an older thinkpad would do. A friend of mine has an upgraded X1 Carbon gen 1, but i recommend something a little bit more modern for your usecases. I don't know about battery life tho.