bunches of refurbished t-series thinkpads out there - t480, t430, etc. apparently the 490 is one to avoid. I got a t470 some months back for $150 - put mint on it and have been very happy with the performance.

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got a t470 refurb for $150 last year and have been very happy with it.

win10 is still supported for 3 more years - if you pay for it.

tried to do that but mom wanted some esoteric bookkeeping software to function - so back to windows for her

well, to an extent that xorg only exists in outdated distros that no longer get updates is what I meant - but in essence, yes.

it sure will be interesting when xorg gets deprecated

bought a (used) t470 a few months ago, been happy with it - especially for the price.

this should be a sticky for the community. simple, concise, answers the major questions.

been rockin kde neon for the last little while, but also really like mint

hoohoo! Linus pulled a scream test and then forced the naysayers to maintain the crap they want. rofl

xorg is going to die eventually. probably long after the xorg fanbois, but it will die - and wayland or something better will take its place.

what’s up with this? I see this school of thought bandied around quite a bit recently. wayland… it’s a protocol. do they hate tcp/ip too? can they boycott that instead?

cheering in the streets? orgies?

if you want to try other distros, try using gnome-boxes for a bit - it lets you easily spin up a virtual machine. there’s better vm apps out there but boxes is really simple to use. I played around with getting Arch installed via cli last night in a vm (via boxes) - didnt actually install it of course, just re-partitioned the /dev/vda, etc.

I was using mx linux for a while on my testbench machine, switched over to kde neon recently and it’s a much better experience.

mint or lmde?

that looks interesting

hopefully they’ll design some package manager incompatible with android at the most basic level - and then double down when it’s proven to be a huge mistake. a good tick upwards for dev jobs, but the time for actual competition was over 10 years ago. this will fail miserably.

rofl

Whatever the actual numbers, it is not unrealistic that Linux will emerge as the second operating system after Windows, especially given Apple’s currently confusing sense of direction.

curious for a 27 year old article how accurate it turned to be (androidOS notwithstanding). Windows seems to still be the “2,000-pound gorilla” but there are other options available these days…