Linux Thinkpad after one year...

[cybrr.ir.l]

I've been using T480 for an year and loving it so far.

[anitamaxcode]

your video "why linux people love thinkpads" made me to buy my thinkpad and since then i love it

[distinctdipole]

I think it's hard to go wrong with a ThinkPad for running Linux; the 15 inch 1080p screen hits my sweet spot. I picked up a reconditioned T460 and a year on I'm very happy (while friends around me with Asus and HP laptops are looking to replace them).

[randolphvanhook]

Started with a Thinkpad T410 and since then I've picked up a T430 and a T480s. Love them all, but the T410 keyboard is truly the king of laptop keyboards.

[umka]

For WiFI and BT to work you can try two things:
- Newer kernels
- Check which chipset you have and find kernel modules supporting it.

For ThinkPads I had I never needed to do anything special for making WiFi and BT to work. It worked out of the box (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Manjaro). Now I run Manjaro with 6.1 kernel.

[sherrilltechnology]

I love this video great one Bro! I have also seen that Wi-Fi issue several times.

[ordinaryhuman]

Screen real estate really is important. I can't really function well without two large monitors, so I don't even try to use my work laptop unless I can dock it somewhere with external screens and a mouse and keyboard.

[umka]

I am using Linux on ThinkPads for years: ThinkPad E495, ThinkPad E14 gen2 now I have ThinkPad E16 gen 1 AMD (16"). Very nice laptop. I went for it because it is inexpensive for its screen size.

[MarkHyde]

Loving my new P series AMD Gen 2 Thinkpad - got it a month ago - haven't put Linux on it yet - but use a dedicated 5900X based PC with Linux on it and Windows 11 virtualised

[coolkiwi]

I've been using a T61 15.4" with Linux mint 20.3 Una installed. I'm in my sophomore year of college and my computer has not failed me yet! If you want to improve the battery usage on your laptop, then I would highly recommend installing powertop and tlp which help me a lot with saving on battery life.

[ludotosk]

For partitioning, I decided to use btrfs on my computer, so that I don't even have to think about the dimension of the partition. Moreover, btrfs once a day do a snapshot of my toot fs that I can also save in an external disk.

[angelortiz-vkez]

I also bought a Thinkpad that came with Windows 11 preinstalled and didn't even boot it once.

[adileturaimov]

If you had Windows already installed on your machine then you have a product key in your BIOS. In case if you will change your mind and want Windows back, then install it. After installation Windows will activate itself as soon as you connect to Internet.

[Iljo]

Also for the partition size, you can just resize your home partition with a tool called gparted, it is a gui tool and very very intuitive. Just resize and shirk the home partition and then resize and make the root partition bigger. You'il need to do it in a live usb of linux/the live gparted USB. Since you can't resize your mounted partitions

[fantasypvp]

14 inch laptops are honeslty fine for coding if you get one with a good resolution, my Archpad is 1440p so its pretty good, definitely still prefer a 32 inch desktop tho

[jhonyortiz]

You can use gparted to graphically resize partitions. Its just a slider. Make sure that the right drive was selected though. having said that, im not sure it'll let you resize a partition you are using so you may need to live boot into another distro using a usb.

[sunkrn]

Try auto-cpufreq to save battery, also I think 14' is the perfect size.

[samsowden]

the fact a computer science course is railroading its students into using windows or mac is just sad.

[Bombexploid]

the first thing i did when getting my thinkpad was remove windows 10 off of it and put linux

[comiumapedra]

im thinking abt getting a used thinkpad t480 for 200 dollars and use linux mint on it, other than that i use linux on those chinese emulation handhelds.