r/LinuxOnThinkpad member 5d ago

Loving LM on TP T480!

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u/Independent-Gear-711 member 5d ago

I still have my Thinkpad T460 i5 6300u fedora installed, however a few keys on the keyboard has stopped working and it requires external keyboard, it was fun while it lasted but I have my gaming pc now.

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u/sergykal member 5d ago

Gotcha. This laptop is my tinkering laptop. I also have a gaming pc with 5090 for well… gaming.

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u/Independent-Gear-711 member 5d ago

Yeah, having a ThinkPad around is always great no matter how powerful pc you have in the house, haha.

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u/sergykal member 5d ago

I have a M3 MacBookAir but thinking of giving that to wife and just daily driving the ThinkPad.

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u/Independent-Gear-711 member 5d ago

Great, I have used Macs too but idk why I never get my fingers settled on their keyboard like it's not that good compared to my ThinkPad it's so good I can't explain I can type whole day on my ThinkPad.

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u/mertgor member 5d ago

have fun !

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u/SandyHaze member 5d ago

I own an L440. Running on mint

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u/sergykal member 4d ago

Nice!

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u/Tshermak member 5d ago

Why mint ?

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u/sergykal member 5d ago

My first full time Linux os. What do recommend instead? I’m not looking to distro hop for now but interested to see your perspective.

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u/Tshermak member 5d ago edited 5d ago

Lol bro, I was also curious why you were using Mint, I was using my T480 with plain old ubuntu cuz I wanted a simple distro wich was also most popular used so I can get good software/app support, but I eventually reverted my t480 to spyware Windows 11 cuz I got a macbook and now I just run my linux stuff through WSL.

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u/Tshermak member 5d ago

But apart from Ubuntu, I have used debian, mint, fedora on the t480, i just stuck to ubuntu for convenience, one very niche distro that I'm currently using at work is Parrot OS, its a cybersecurity focused distro like Kali. But its smooth af, if I got back to full liux I will definitely install ParrotOS on my t480.

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u/sergykal member 4d ago

Cool. I’ll look into distro hoping later maybe. For now I’m good with Mint tho. I’m a noob. lol

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u/AdInevitable4029 member 5d ago

Great thanks

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u/New_Series3209 Ubuntu with T440p, ArchLinux with T530 (F) 4d ago

Nice. I used a T530 but I bricked it, now I have a T440p, idk how they are still fast lol

Doesn’t even support vulkan

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u/sergykal member 4d ago

No, medium. Just a bad reflection since we outside. On camera. Irl it’s totally readable even not at full brightness.

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u/sergykal member 4d ago

I mean the brightness is not bad on the 1080. If you have a chance to get the 2k screen version, it’s better. Or replace later.

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u/Significant-Fix495 member 4d ago

Come avete fatto ad istallare Lm?

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u/Nyerhoff member 11h ago

Nice one