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.

  • altasshet@lemmy.ca
    3·
    4 days ago

    Awesome, welcome to the club!

    I just upgraded from a T420 (bought new) to an X13 Gen 3. I like the much better screen and the much lower weight, but I miss the old style keyboard…

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
    131·
    6 days ago

    I feel like an old ThinkPad is like a right of passage on Linux. Just about everyone I know who uses Linux has had one at some point or another.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      4·
      6 days ago

      A T440p running Antergos got me through college. I regret selling it since that thing served me well 🫡

      • Slashme@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        I love selling things that have served me well - it feels better knowing that they’re helping someone instead of sitting in a drawer, untouched.

        • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
          2·
          5 days ago

          Fair point! In this case, I sold it to my brother who got through a fair bit of university with it so it did help a lot of people.

          I get sentimental about tech that I used for a while though so I kind of hoard it all now that I don’t need to sell the device to replace it

    • libewa@feddit.org
      1·
      5 days ago

      I used to use an old consumer Yoga, and now a new ThinkPad. Some say it’s the wrong way around, I say I want more than 2 cores and 8GiB of RAM. (Un-)Fortunately, I got hooked on the Nix and Tiling-WM drugs quite soon, and so there wasn’t a lot of distrohopping.

  • Sniatch@feddit.org
    2·
    4 days ago

    I got an old HP ProBook from my parents because they got a new one. I also installed Linux Mint on it :D Everything works, the keyboard lights, the wifi, the preset buttons work the same.

    it’s really fun trying out Linux on older hardware. Don’t know when was the last time I had fun with playing around tech stuff. Linux really made it fun again for me

  • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
    5·
    5 days ago

    All the best! My SO runs a T480s, the elegant one, for years now, switched to Debian after U went super-slow on her.

    I went all fancy-schmancy with a Yoga x390, debian too.

    Both cheap secondhand, both issue-free (and both with touchscreen!). Whish the official batteries where still available tho.

      • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        5 days ago

        This one does. I think certain IPS models got the feature. Tbh, not really much of a touchscreen guy for laptops but I wont say no

      • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
        2·
        5 days ago

        Not all of them, we were lucky I think. Yoga’s have it by their very 2-in-1 nature, nice little things, classy matte black like any Thinkpad should be.

  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
    3·
    5 days ago

    I got 5 T420s (nice) from my boss last year. Now they’re all running Linux and loaded up with late 90s, early 2000s games to play over LAN

  • gilokee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    HELL yeah! I have an E16 and it plays Factorio and other simple games (plus emulators) so it’s perfect! And of course it’s running Mint. :D

    (simple graphically. Factorio is not simple. lol.)

    • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      6 days ago

      Ive actually been using Linux for a few years now, but I needed a laptop so figured this would be a good choice. But I am enjoying Linux very much!

      • solarspark@lemmy.ml
        2·
        5 days ago

        Good stuff. And no difference. I’m always learning something new about Linux. And that’s what makes it amazing. Truly a freedom operating system

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    Hell yeah. I somewhat recently bought a refurbished T490 and it’s one of my favorite computers I’ve ever owned.

    • Slashme@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      Same!

      I had bought it, installed Debian on it, and had been using it for more than a week before I discovered that it has a touchscreen :-D

      Very nice laptop.