Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

I am typing this on a new laptop! New to me, it's refurbished. As an early birthday present it's a pretty brilliant one. It's tiny and versatile while my old one was heavy and cumbersome.

I'm trying out KDE for some accessibility features I wanted to try but a) I'm not sure it does any more and b) I am really struggling with the interface being different to what I'm used to. I should probably stick with it longer than a few hours before losing all hope.

Ive got new hardware to get used to too, and why are all keyboards different? why is touchpad input so consistently inconsistent? will I ever get used to the fact that this is my first laptop with a touchscreen (I also kinda hate touchscreens but it will help with my constantly-losing-the-cursor problem I think??)?

Maybe it is just too many new things at once.

I'm still delighted with the laptop though; the old one was chosen for me by uni so I didn't get any say in it and I always hated it. This could not be more different.