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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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. :)
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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curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 11 pts · 97d
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.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 96d
I finally got an excuse to upgrade my wife's T480 to Mint when Windows said it won't support 11.
mub@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 96d
Up doot for Endeavour OS. The distro that finally let me leave windows.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 96d
EOS was my first distro as well. Really great.
warmaster@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 97d
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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 96d
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.
faizalr@piefed.social · 2 pts · 97d
Is it a live bootable OS or a complete installation?
warmaster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d
Full installation. For the OS it's just a drive.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 96d
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.
non_burglar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 97d
Simon Stalenhag! Nice wallpaper. I have a bunch of his images for mine as well.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 95d
That looks like a rendered version of the art for the board game Scythe (which is excellent)
KlavKalashj@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 96d
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.
___@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 95d
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.
KlavKalashj@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 94d
Guess I could do that, didnt think about that. I will check it out, thanks!
shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 97d
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!
muhyb@programming.dev · 3 pts · 96d
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. :)
altasshet@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 95d
T420 currently on Cachy OS. Daily personal laptop since 2011, on some kind of Linux since about 2017.
sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 92d
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...
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 92d
i almost bought one of these and it sounds like a dodge a bullet.
but then again, i ended up getting an hp instead and that died 3 years ago, so maybe not. lol
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 97d
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hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 96d
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
frightful5680@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 96d
Was but it was a dual core and I kept getting shipped doa or wrong cpus to upgrade it so I quit
thehatfox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 96d
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.
_lunar@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 96d
aim_at_me@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 95d
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.
Twongo@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 95d
running cachyos on a t420 and i'm currently trying to get my t61 working again :)