Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺Mar 17

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

This is my first “new” 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.

Show threadmdavis
@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 “anything 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!
Mar 17 at 1:48pmIvory for iOS
Show threadRuben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺6d ago

@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 threadJonathan6d ago
@mdavis said Cinnamon, not mate @rubenerd *ducks*
Show threadRuben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺6d ago

@jonathan @mdavis

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

Show threadJonathan6d ago
@rubenerd I would have expected a block instead 🤓