And of course I’m installing Linux on it. Install went well, even the fingerprint sensor built in to the laptop works.

Mostly this will be a school and DND machine but always nice to have a functional laptop for whatever else I may need it for.

  • rapchee@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    just recently i’ve installed cachyos (after a few months of mint) on my t420 and it works really well
    for instance the partial battery charging works (on mint you need to install extra stuff and configure via file, on cachy it’s just part of the power settings)
    but also generally i feel it’s a bit quicker and prettier

    • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      What do you mean by partial battery charging? I noticed the battery readout isnt exactly accurate so far but I’m not sure if that’s what you mean.

      • rapchee@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        sorry maybe i phrased it wrong
        instead of charging to 100% you can limit it to max 80% and only charge it from below 60% for example, it supposedly helps with the battery life

  • dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Thinkpads are awesome. They aren’t as good as they used to be, but they still work great for linux.

    Why mint?

    I use mint as my “TV room” OS. It’s worked pretty well so far.

    • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Mostly for compatibility and ease of use. I don’t wanna fiddle with things if I don’t have to. Wanted it to be stable. Ive also been thinking about switching to mint on my main machine so this is also kind of a test run. I tried mint years ago but it didn’t work well for me back then.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I know, not the place for distro evangelism, but maybe give bazzite a whirl or some other immutable fedora variant, sorry, Mint is just Ubuntu Lite, if you really like it, go Debian Sid or something.

        At least with an immutable you can distrro-hop with distrobox. Just saying.

        • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldOP
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          2 months ago

          I’m not a fan of immutable distros tbh. I know they are the most “ease of use” you can get but at the same time, if I really want to change something, I can.

          And IMO, I like Ubuntu. Wide compatibility and is stable. Thats what I like. I could take or leave Canonical though.

          • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Fair cop, use what you like, it’s not a religion.

            I wouldn’t go with ‘ease of use’ personally, it’s more can’t break the main OS. I tend to do dev work in distroboxes, different workflow, but you never end up rebooting to a broken system and you can install wild dependencies without guilt. Works for me. YMMV.

            • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              I love the discourse here, it’s so nice to see. Not only because I, too, am a Mint user for practical purposes (MATE flavour, even, in spite of running on pretty modern hardware).

              By the way, I am obligated to commend you on your username, cap’n. It’s not much, but it’s enough, right?

      • distal@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        ARE YOU KIDDING? STOCKINGS ARE FOR NERDS – ARCH USERS – AND ONE CERTAIN FALLEN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN. NEWPORTS AND SHITTY INSTANT COFFEE ARE THE GENTOO PREREQUISITES.