Twongo [she/her]

i’m sorry but the ‘compromised aur package’ controversy may be bad BUT the compromised packages were malware anyway. you just need to check what you install on your system. these malware packages are stuff like “adnauseam-firefox-git” (why on earth would you download a firefox plugin via the aur) or had names like “python-cool-32-git”

the biggest security issue were the users themselves who didn’t check the packages

5d old account, every answer sounds like an LLM and the post itself is just… questionable.

What’s the goal here?

running cachyos on a t420 and i’m currently trying to get my t61 working again :)

i don’t remember anyone asking for this

❤️🔥🦊

Found a T430 bascially in a dumpster - some guy was about to throw it away, we just had to 3d-print a power button, take out a broken ram stick and clean it up. Looks like new now. Installed Cachy and KDE on it, as i´m just used to Arch but didn´t want the headache of setting it up. Now it´s the workhorse at my workplace. this 14yr old brick is just nicer to use than the other laptops at our disposal :D

For private use i got a T420, using it to watch stuff in bed, read books and even retro gaming. It´s almost in daily use and fulfills my needs without any hiccups :D

For mobile internet with a SIM you might wanna check out this Arch Wiki Page. It´s actually easy to set up in KDE BUUUUT my Thinkpad (T420) only supports 3G, which has been shut off in my country.

i’ve tried gnome, cinnamon, hyprland, lxqt and whatnot… but everything i have settles on KDE

glad i could help :)

unfortunately not, power wise it only lets you upgrade the RAM.

but those CPU´s are vastly superior to those 2nd and 3rd Gen i7´s you can put into a t420/t430

the german website https://thinkwiki.de/ has detailed information about possible upgrades of every model :)

Thinkpads were basically made for Linux, depending on your Budget you can get a Thinkpad X220, X230, T420 or T430 for small money - perfectly usesble machines and Linux (my experience is CachyOS & Arch) work out of the box.

For a bigger budget i could recomment the T480, it’s still upgradeable.

And for a bigger budget i’d recommend a T14 GEN2

god i love the t420! the only limitation it has for my usecase is gaming which is fine - i use the steam streaming feature when i want to play games like citybuilders in my bed :)

Mint.

Linux users tend to forget that using Konsole even once is overwhelming for even “seasoned PC users”

My roommate is a gamer, spends lots of time on PC´s and knows his shit. But he felt overwhelmed with the CachyOS Laptop i gifted him.

pirated games can be quite ethical :3

I got used to the Workflow of Ableton so I understand the struggle. I got an 8-Track license for Bitwig from a friend which works like a charm. Other than that there´s Ardour, it´s FOSS and ugly - can´t say more since i haven´t played around with it yet but apparently it´s good? idk.

glad i could help! :)

i found my way around it, if you have issues where the wiki can’t help you feel free to message me!

I am no expert and can only tell from my own experience: i recently installed CachyOS with KDE, it is an Arch based distro, despite that I, a fresh linux user, think it is really accessible and it worked out of the box. Gaming is not really an issue for me, if issues arise i just check ProtonDB, but that´s really rare thanks to Lutris being pre-installed. You also benefit from the Arch Wiki which, in my opinion, has a REALLY good documentation of any question or issue you encounter with that operating system.

You have to get comfortable with the terminal though, but i think that applies to any linux distro (my only other distro experience is Mint 10 yrs ago)