ofc I imediatly upgraded it from winxp to gnu/linux

  • netvor@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 years ago

    makes me think of the good ol’t times when the air was cleaner, roads were safer and our bosses used to pay us in Thinkpads, not this “fiat money” nonsense.

      • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 years ago

        Yeah back when it was IBM before they sold off to Lenovo. Back when their biggest selling point was their priority was keeping you up & running and getting work done. Nowadays nearly all the products are made with the priority “So, how do we design this so the user will have to pay for it multiple times?”

    • Album@lemmy.ca
      9·
      2 years ago

      I’ve owned/used HPs, Dells, and several Thnkpads and the thinkpads by far are always the best machines. They are built to last, support is top notch.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I’m a gnu/linux noob. I recently installed Pop OS on two older laptops. Am loving it so far. Going to work on getting games functioning on one of them next.

    Was blown away when the built-in Disks program was able to easily fix a couple of thumb drives I have that were suffering from logical corruption. They were completely unusable in Windows 11. I tried 4 different methods in Windows 11 to fix them, with zero luck. Disks fixed them in 2 clicks. They are nicer thumb drives and were somewhat expensive. I am very happy to have them back.

    • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      I totally get what you’re saying, but I suspect the OP is not going to be using this device full-time. Or even part-time.