ofc I imediatly upgraded it from winxp to gnu/linux

        • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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          8 months ago

          the last time i used a minimalist distro on an old thinkpad; x windows was so heavy that it noticeably slowed everything down. not so much that it wasn’t still useful, but that was only true if i didn’t use kde or gnome or watch netflix on chrome; it sounds like that hasn’t changed much in 20 years.

  • netvor@lemmy.world
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    8 months 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.

    • bruhduh@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I mean, work in a tech field and have good relations with people who manage hardware, you’ll get to keep some that goes to garbage then, you’ll be surprised how much fairly recent hardware is thrown out by companies

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months 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.

    • bi_tux@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      the older lenovo models aren’t bad, but the shit they pump out recently is well, shit

      • frankgrimeszz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        They had a Chinese back door in the firmware. Don’t know if that’s still the case. https://www.techworm.net/2015/08/lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-to-have-a-bios-level-backdoor.html They’ve had several major (intentional) security flaws over the years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo They had a modified UEFI that allows insecure execution of EXEs. The Lenovo laptops given to US military in Iraq had keyloggers that sent all inputs back to China.

          • frankgrimeszz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            In the case of the soldiers in Iraq, China had installed an independent chip specifically for keylogging. I don’t know if replacing the boot loader would even solve that.

            • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              8 months ago

              Oh I read it was a backdoored BIOS.

              Yeah libreboot would probably not help much then.

      • Peffse@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        I thought Lenovo was two different brands, one consumer (terrible) and one corporate (decent). Is that no longer true?

        • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Lenovo makes consumer crap with their own brand and they have Think -line of products from the big blue and the latter is pretty much comparable to all the other big players (dell, hp, fujitsu…) on desktop/laptop market. Each have their own annoyances and fuckups and in general if you ask opinion from 3 IT professionals on which brand to buy you’ll get 4-6 answers.

          Personally if I’m looking for a laptop I’ll go to pre-leased and refurbished thinkpad. I currently have T465 and for wife I got pretty decent Tsomething from the office for peanuts.

          • Peffse@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            I bought out both a T430 and L480 because of their build quality and stability, and just got a little confused as to whether the opinion changed recently or if they merged divisions.

            I was recently provisioned a Dell and… well, I’m not buying that one.

            • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              8 months ago

              I haven’t paid too much attention on what lenovo is doing lately, but at some point they brought L-series thinkpad-branded laptops on the market which was pretty much garbage. At least in here local stores sold first models of L-series as a ‘thinkpad grade laptops for consumer pricing’ and they were just bad on all fronts, as the L-series was just a competition on a*-brands trying to get their share for sub-300€ (or whatever that was at the time) laptops from your equivalent of walmart riding on the brand which they didn’t build.

              Gladly that died out pretty soon and Think* brand is still somewhat strong with their T/W/X models as they used to be when IBM ran the business. Of course they had their own issues too, USB-C docks were garbage with everyone when they started to appear and people at the office still curse on thinkpads for various issues with firmware/hardware/whatever, but in my experience it’s been the same road for all the big players. Dell had a pretty decent sales/support going on at 2010(ish), but their hardware had plenty of problems, HP had pretty good pricing for their hardware a bit later, but they had massive issues with firmware and so on.

              I’ve been pretty happy with thinkpads I’ve got since R50 brand new (if I recall correctly) and for me they’ve been available on second hand market in here since that. But that’s just a personal experience, I’ve never been in charge to buy hunderds of anything on IT department at work.

        • KaRunChiy@kbin.run
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          8 months ago

          Still rings true a little, their quality is far better than their competitors though. I’ve had a lot less issues with the functionality of lenovo laptops over the crap acer or asus or dell produce.

          It kinda became muddled around the X1 Carbon when they decided that thin chasis = better, and then started cutting features

          • Peffse@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            I had to do a battery replacement on the L480. They had top-notch support on what part number to order, video guide on how to properly disassemble the case, remove ribbon cables, etc etc etc. I wish all companies had that kind of support.

      • gpopides@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Haven’t really used the older models but the x1c line is decent imo. Also t14. Z line is also good but focuses on different crowd.