For what I needed a PC to do, retro gaming, web browsing, light multimedia, it’s like this T480s was tailor made for me 😎 You’re going to hate me but so far Windows 11, I’ve had no problems with it, dirty of me to say when people are screaming at me to install Mint. But I’m a major dingdong and if it ain’t broke don’t fix it? Feels nice to have nice things sometimes.
install linux the machine is going to feel literally 2x faster
puts rust shill glasses on
put cosmic de on it over kde and itll feel 4x faster
Really it’s the gui slowing it down
you should try cosmic out basically the memory handling on rust has a very good baseline so theres less memory leaks and lag. works pretty great and is snappy. i do think kde is gonna have a run for its money in a couple years when cosmic is fully fleshed out (it was only officially released back in January)
as one of the people who screamed to install linux, do whatever floats your boat. life is too short to worry about every minute detail of the new thing you bought. enjoy it while the new factor still lasts switch to linux when you get bored and want to try something new.
Happy for you.
Though IMO I would recommend at least using MAS to activate an enterprise license for Win11 which gives you more control. Then either using a safe debloater like O&O shutup or a guided set of group policy settings. You can turn off the AI and other stuff and gain a speed boost without breaking anything just using safe Windows internal methods.
Windows continues proving to require more effort to use than slapping Mint on a PC.
I’ve only ever seen that sort of gif used by trans girls talking about feeling gender euphoria so you must really be enjoying the thinkpad
Having an old thinkpad is a form of trans gender euphoria if you really think about it
You mean having something you can take apart and rebuild exactly how you want? Hmmm, can’t see the correlation there at all
Hi mate I’m John Doe, I’ll be watching you sleep till you install Linux.
Warm Regards, Your Friend
if you’re cool with Microsoft logging every key you press, every application and website you open, deciding what you can and cannot do with your machine, and tracking every other device you have on your network then Win11 is probably fine. It’s a decision that is up to you to make
I’m glad it’s working for you, my T490 is slow as shit 😎
Could always pop that baby open, clean all the dust, and reapply thermal paste, a clean image also works wonders
I’ve already done all that lol. Really it’s just Firefox and 3D rendering that’s really slow, could be poor driver support for Intel integrated graphics on kubuntu.
Yeah those babies barely survive ps2 games but the build quality is next to none.
extremely wholesome post
if win 11 works for you, stick with it
install bazzite or fedora atomic, everything works out of the box and is trivial to maintain. mint is in the past, the future is immutable
bazzite comes preloaded with gaming stuff and is not easy to break while you learn linux
I am absolutely in love with CachyOS right now. If you install Linux, I’d highly recommend that one. It was super easy to set up and use and so far blows Windows out of the water in terms of performance and everything else.
Hell yeag! Glad your new laptop is going great, comrade! If win11 is working and you don’t mind their corporate bs so far, just keep using it, but if you ever feel the need or want to change it, we got you. If you ever want to just test it out just to see how it goes, you could always install it on an external drive too before committing to it.
Hell, even just boot into mint without installing it and just poke around and see if there’s anything you can’t do. If not, no reason not to install it. :)
The t480s is a damn workhorse. Been rocking mine for two years. Excellent choice.
If you’re doing anything more than gaming I’d recommend Linux for privacy reasons. Or install a network monitor and see how much data Microsoft is sending back to its servers about you, constantly.
But yeah when I got my last thinkpad I was just using it for casual gaming and nothing else, so I left windows on it for a couple months. Slightly easier to pirate games in windows.
You can get a refurbished Samsung Evo on eBay for like $30, toss Linux on it (look for a listing with a crystaldiskinfo screenshot), and keep your Windows drive as a backup. I have mine in a box somewhere in case I ever have a usecase that I don’t want to use Linux for.
Even before that you can try booting from a liveUSB, which might run a bit slower but only takes like 3 minutes to make.
I recently tried out CachyOS on an extra laptop and it seems pretty sleek. All the common distros are fine though.
