Anyone here using an old ThinkPad with Linux?
Up doot for Endeavour OS. The distro that finally let me leave windows.
EOS was my first distro as well. Really great.
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?
Full installation. For the OS it’s just a drive.
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. :)
Simon Stalenhag! Nice wallpaper. I have a bunch of his images for mine as well.
That looks like a rendered version of the art for the board game Scythe (which is excellent)
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.
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.
Guess I could do that, didnt think about that. I will check it out, thanks!
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!
T420 currently on Cachy OS. Daily personal laptop since 2011, on some kind of Linux since about 2017.
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…
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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Was but it was a dual core and I kept getting shipped doa or wrong cpus to upgrade it so I quit
running cachyos on a t420 and i’m currently trying to get my t61 working again :)
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.
