I mean, it was for on campus use, but I bought one in college to have a cheap note taker and basic homework machine for on campus that wouldn’t set me back too far if it got stolen or broken. I had a gaming desktop at home and was in a non-technical major, so it worked out great.
I’ve loved clean Android since the Nexus 5 days, so the Pixel line was the natural place for me to end up. The cameras have been a nice bonus, and the call filtering alone would be enough to keep me in the Pixel camp.
They’re just fluid and uncluttered, plus they can be tinkered with without voiding the warranty (unlike the Motorola I owned a while back). Helps that there’s always great ROM support as well once they fall off of official support.
I have before. I liked it broadly, but could not fix issues with artifacting while playing video in Firefox. It’s a small issue, but enough to make me go back to Arch and/or Debian.