Ruben Schade  πŸ”° πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

New ThinkPad arrived! 2.8K IPS! Matte! Exclamation marks! YAY

This is my first β€œnew” ThinkPad ever, I’ve always had second hand machines. Also marks the end of my personal Mac era, having first got an iMac DV in 1999, and a bunch of iBooks and MacBooks since.

Next step is to wipe the unserious OS off it and put FreeBSD and Fedora on it.

Mar 17 at 7:06amWeb
Show threadThomas Mar 17
@rubenerd

If, as a side effect, a HowTo on behive based Fedora on freeBSD would come along …
I would appreciate that!
Show threadQuokkaMar 17
@rubenerd Is this a jump away from Mac?
Show threadmdavisMar 17
@rubenerd You’re going to love it. I bought a nearly perfect X1 Carbon Gen 9 (32GB, matte) for US$360 from eBay last July with the goal of β€œanything other than Windows” on it. Whichever just installed and ran Cinnamon would be the winner. I tried FreeBSD 15.0 first (I think it was an RC then) but it had issues. I tried Linux Mint and… it worked great. I’ve been waiting for 15.x to mature and smooth out so I can try it again. Keep us posted on your experience!
Show threadRuben Schade  πŸ”° πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊMar 17

@mdavis Thanks mate, will do :)

Also wow, that's a steal for that X1! I expect I'll have to wait a bit for full FreeBSD support too, but hopefully I can contribute testing etc.

Show threadJonathanMar 18
@mdavis said Cinnamon, not mate @rubenerd *ducks*
Show threadRuben Schade  πŸ”° πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊMar 18

@jonathan @mdavis

(... aaaaand this is why I just decided to follow you haha)

Show threadJonathanMar 18
@rubenerd I would have expected a block instead πŸ€“
Show threadWesley MooreMar 18

@rubenerd

> Also marks the end of my personal Mac era

Another tech-savvy, long-time Mac user leaving the platform (as I did back in 2017 after nearly 30 years). You'd think Apple would take notice of this, but it seems they mostly care about mainstream users now.

Show threadTim PrestonMar 18

@wezm @rubenerd same for me. I gave up in 2018 and instead have a used HP SFF ProDesk and a $1000 intel blank laptop 🀷

My first Mac was a used LCII with a black and white monitor, around 1994-5. Feels a bit sad, but I’m pretty happy with FreeBSD for my needs.

Enjoy the new machine @rubenerd !

Show threadKungFuDiscoMonkeyMar 18
@rubenerd Kinda jealous! Staying in the Apple ecosystem is *easier* but I share some frustration that things have been going downhill. I wonder if having a Linux Laptop to tinker with would help break me out of the comfort zone ^^;
Show threadπ™Ήπš˜πšŽπš• π™²πšŠπš›πš—πšŠπš β™‘ πŸ€ͺMar 18
@rubenerd it seems they put the Fn in the wrong place πŸ˜…
Show threadADG aka hern aka antihrn6d ago
@rubenerd cool. very interested in seeing how freebsd will work on it, as i'm also hunting for a new laptop to replace my old asus zenbook which, sadly, falls to pieces.