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2026-04-04 23:18 UTC

@ColinTheMathmo Thinkpads are among the most trouble-free systems on which to install Linux. I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen.3, which I bought when it first came out about 12 years ago. I never let Windows boot even once, but immediately wiped it and installed Debian Sid. Never had a *single* problem. While the graphics and CPU are a hair slow by modern standards, the machine still runs beautifully, the keyboard and display are still great, and the battery is still in decent shape.

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  • @ewhac@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 23:26

    @ColinTheMathmo Only real downside to the Gen.3 is that, although the internal M.2 slot is NVMe-capable, the BIOS is *just* old enough that it can't boot off an NVMe SSD, but can only talk AHCI/SATA. Still 550MiB/sec is still perfectly fine for most day to day stuff.

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