Anyone here using an old ThinkPad with Linux?
Anyone here using an old ThinkPad with Linux?
can’t see using anything else honestly; there aren’t a lot of laptops left that satisfy the repairable & modular 2-in-1 niche like the X2xxT series and earlier yogas do.
This made me think of the bad LCD in my X220. And then i got curious and there really are a few OLED touchscreens for that device around. Good idea? Or all fake?
Sorry to piggyback this thread.
Hello fellow X201 user. I too used EndeavourOS on my X201 for a long time, though currently I’m using Void on it (which I like a lot more). While KDE runs on it fine I mostly preferred river+waybar+fuzzel setup. Intel iGPU on this device really sucks by the way. :)
My daily driver is a t450s running Fedora Kinoite. It’s great, all working fine, but browsing is getting a bit heavy on it, and battery life is less than an hour, so it’s mostly used stationary. Thinking of upgrading to a T14 G3.
i have multiple t/x/w 20/30 thinkpads, i usually use the w520 the most because of its 1080p display and 7 row keyboard
I’ve got an X220 as my secondary laptop, currently running Debian. It’s had several mods/upgrades and it’s still a very useful machine.
T480, so not quite as well aged as the x201.
Pretty much everything I have is somewhere between 6 and 15 years old. My wife’s laptop is an x1 yoga gen 2 (2016), my TV’s “streaming box” is an m910q, my servers are a random mix of tmm’s with the newest being p330s and the oldest is a dell from 2013ish. I just cobbled a frankenstein together with parts from 2008 and up, which went to my BIL because he needed a PC and I needed less parts in my office.
Off lease business stuff is an absolute favorite of mine to pick up.
Simon Stalenhag! Nice wallpaper. I have a bunch of his images for mine as well.
I’ve been running NixOS on a T430 from 2012 as my daily driver for over a year now and it’s been the most fun I’ve had with a computer in a long time. The first couple weeks was a hell of a learning curve (because of Nix) but so worth it!
I wouldn’t say old, but it’s a Thinkpad. I’m using Aurora Linux on a work laptop. In order to not void the warranty, I’m using an M2 NVME drive via a USBC caddy. It’s been rock solid for more than a year and I get to plug it to my desktop PC and use it as a thumb drive to access all my laptop files.
Great experience.
I’m using an M2 NVME drive via a USBC caddy.
Maybe it’s a driver (power management) issue but mine is way too power hungry for that. This thing guzzles 3% battery in 2 minutes. Also gets quite hot.
Is it a live bootable OS or a complete installation?
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