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.

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[–] 21 points 2 months ago (24 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 2 months ago (21 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 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?

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  • [+] -17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

    Can you give an example of a Linux distro that isn't stable, that you have to "fiddle" with?

    Bruh, so many down votes for asking a simple question. Dang, community. :|

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Gentoo is great. I can configure it exactly the way I want. I switched to it after redhat went enterprise and never looked back. Stage 1 install.

    However, sometimes packages get out of sync an I have build problems that need to be diagnosed.

    Sometimes some packages get deprecated & I have to redo my configuration.

    Deprecating python 2.7 was especially fun.

    Back in the day, manual config of x11 was needed and that was fun. Back in the redhat days, the x11 configuration was in multiple places which was confusing.

    Sound still is erratic after the laptop goes to sleep.

    I did a manual transition from X to Wayland and that took a bit of learning.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    You know exactly what. Feigning dismay at the down votes emphasizes the fact. But in case you're truly unable to read the room - don't be that Linux guy that drives people away from the community by being a pompous dildo. It's unbecoming, highlights your fedora, and is the reason you don't have any friends, Kevin.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

    What on earth are you talking about? 😆 You have no idea who I am or how many friends I have lmao. I have more than I have time to keep up with, sadly. It's hard with two small kids and a family.

    Anyway, I really was just asking a question. What the fuck did I say that people take offense to? Please read the room aloud for me, if you could? Without being a rude prick?

    Edit: I went through your comment history a bit, because name calling is usually a huge red flag for me, indicating that someone has a social problem and isn't worth my time. Seems like you really like name calling, and you like to call people out loudly when they don't understand something that you do. You pride yourself on your intellect, I imagine. And it makes you feel good when you put people down that don't have an intellect that measures up to your own, especially if yours gets challenged, even a little bit, by someone else. Instant defensive mode.

    I think I might cancel my request for you to tell me what was wrong with what I said. I'll ask someone else that comes along. Thanks for dropping by, though.

    (Also seems like you're more of a Linux nerd than I am, so joke's on you. 😅 Peace. ✌️)

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Bruh, you have no case. Go away, troll.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You've taken some light ribbing much more seriously than you should. To the point where you expose personal details about yourself, real or not, to strangers on the internet to emotionally charge your rebuttal. The digging into someone elses comment history is traditionally cringe neckbeard behavior, but you do you boo boo. I already told you what you did wrong. I'm not trolling. Don't be a dweeb.

    Your initial comment to OP came off mouthbreathingly arrogant. I said what I said. Sorry if it hurt your feelings more than it should.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    light ribbing

    You call this light ribbing? 😂

    You aren't sorry. Get the fuck out of here.

    I don't think having kids or a family is "exposing" myself lol.

    You talk about me being arrogant but you have some of the most obnoxious behavior I've seen on Lemmy thus far. You keep doing more name calling as well. What are you, 8?

    Maybe look in the mirror, son. Grow up. 🖕

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Whatever helps you sleep at night, tiger. Pompous dildo is pretty lax.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I hear that a lot but I got a new e14 amd on special it was so cheap. It's not the most powerful but i put 32gbs of ram and a 2tb nvme in it runs arch on it and its a cool little machine.

    The ram and the hard drive cost more than the laptop. Would I have bought this thing for retail? Prob not, I resent giving money to Lenovo directly.

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