Anyone here using an old ThinkPad with Linux?

Endeavour OS on My X201

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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Up doot for Endeavour OS. The distro that finally let me leave windows.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Have you considered getting a large external battery? My 2015 T450s on Fedora still gets 6-10h battery life with 97Wh between the two batteries. Mostly stock with a repasted CPU 6 years ago (probably needs to be done again) and an M.2 2242 as the boot drive, with a 2.5" SSD as the D: drive.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    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. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I am currently using a Lenovo Yoga 370 from 2017 (which I bought as a refurbished device). This replaced my previous Lenovo X121e with an AMD E-450 from arround 2012 (also bought as a refurbished device).

    But the plastic from the Yoga is now slowly but steadily crumbling arround the Screen or arround the hinges. So I think we will have to part ways at some point...

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    T420 currently on Cachy OS. Daily personal laptop since 2011, on some kind of Linux since about 2017.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Simon Stalenhag! Nice wallpaper. I have a bunch of his images for mine as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    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!

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    Im using a super modern Thinkpad with Linux. But I have some old options too. I also have a 2015 Macbook Pro running Ubuntu 26.04.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Was but it was a dual core and I kept getting shipped doa or wrong cpus to upgrade it so I quit

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    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

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