About: I'm an Army Veteran that finished my a CS degree last year and spent the past year working on a start up with a friend.
I'm looking to get my foot in the door somewhere, preferably in Seattle, and am willing to do or learn just about anything you need. I'm up for everything from data mining to web development. If you need it, I'll do it.
I'm also available for freelance or contract work.
On the development side implementation was very easy. All it takes is a meta tag with a bitcoin address and you're good to go. I built it into a social blogging site I've been working on, so that when you visit an article the bitcoin address used for tipping is the author's. Here's a post I wrote explaining it:
I might consider it given that I just run Linux on it anyways. Quality issues with the case of my current thinkpad, an E530, are likely to give me more pause.
I really do think there is a niche for linux compatible bare bones laptops. I know that some companies make them, but most are of low quality. Maybe Dell will come out with more options in the future.
But to answer your question, I would buy again, but would choose a competitor over them if all other things were equal.
I'm honestly not as well versed in what the latest alternative cryptocurrencies are as I used to be. However, I don't know of any that have solved the problem of blockchain bloat due to increased microtransactions.
I still think Bitcoin would be the best choice at the moment. It has a developer community that is actively working on solutions to the problems that keep it from being better suited to large numbers of microtransactions.