@rl_dane

That was an enjoyable read. I had a #ThinkPad #L530 in 2013 for some school stuff. Once done, I blew away #Windows7 for #Debian. Almost* everything worked out of the box. Fast, stable, and reliable.

Had I not tripped over the power cable (and thus violently tearing apart the AC adapter plug and internal connection, I'd still have it.

I've seriously considered going for another ThinkPad but I have a handful of spare laptops at my disposal and my daily driver is a sweet #Dell #Latitude 5400 (also running Debian).

The only thing that didn't work was the red dot in the keyboard. Oddly, it was supported under #openSUSE.

#laptop #linux #homelab

@mook the problem is that many #Linux #distros procrastinate change.

• Noone would've started #SystemD if #SysVinit wasn't a dead end.
• For all the old #Xorg applications there's #Wayback to provide a user-privileged #Xwayland option.
• Modern #GPU|s by #Intel and #AMD only support #Wayland as #X11 is #EoL'd. This is the reason I can't deploy @linuxmint / #LinuxMint but have to setup @ubuntu / #UbuntuLTS or @opensuse / #OpenSUSE instead.
• It'll likely be easier to backport Wayland than whatever clusterfuck #Xlibre does try...

Also the problem is with either unmaintained legacy applications doing edgecases or shitty hardware vendors (espechally #nvidia) refusing to support Wayland & mixed-DPI setups!

• In reality, shit just works as in even #Gaming does unless the #Developers are assholes and specifically engineer their #Game to not work on Linux…

@jorge I just threw #Aeon Desktop (based on #OpenSUSE Tumbleweed packages) on this laptop.

You can't beat it for things like simplicity and boot speed, though Bluefin is still in the ballpark.

Contrasting #Aeon and #Bluefin

Simple vs. batteries included (a whole lot more batteries, many optional)

OpenSUSE world vs. Fedora/CentOS world

10+ images (via BTRFS) to fall back on vs. 2 images (unless you pin some)

Aeon auto-updates Distroboxes (by choice), Bluefin does not (also by choice)

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