Anyone here using an old ThinkPad with Linux?
I am currently using a Lenovo Yoga 370 from 2017 (which I bought as a refurbished device). This replaced my previous Lenovo X121e with an AMD E-450 from arround 2012 (also bought as a refurbished device).
But the plastic from the Yoga is now slowly but steadily crumbling arround the Screen or arround the hinges. So I think we will have to part ways at some point…
i almost bought one of these and it sounds like a dodge a bullet.
but then again, i ended up getting an hp instead and that died 3 years ago, so maybe not. lol
Up doot for Endeavour OS. The distro that finally let me leave windows.
EOS was my first distro as well. Really great.
T420 currently on Cachy OS. Daily personal laptop since 2011, on some kind of Linux since about 2017.
T480, so not quite as well aged as the x201.
Pretty much everything I have is somewhere between 6 and 15 years old. My wife’s laptop is an x1 yoga gen 2 (2016), my TV’s “streaming box” is an m910q, my servers are a random mix of tmm’s with the newest being p330s and the oldest is a dell from 2013ish. I just cobbled a frankenstein together with parts from 2008 and up, which went to my BIL because he needed a PC and I needed less parts in my office.
Off lease business stuff is an absolute favorite of mine to pick up.
I finally got an excuse to upgrade my wife’s T480 to Mint when Windows said it won’t support 11.
This made me think of the bad LCD in my X220. And then i got curious and there really are a few OLED touchscreens for that device around. Good idea? Or all fake?
Sorry to piggyback this thread.
I wouldn’t say old, but it’s a Thinkpad. I’m using Aurora Linux on a work laptop. In order to not void the warranty, I’m using an M2 NVME drive via a USBC caddy. It’s been rock solid for more than a year and I get to plug it to my desktop PC and use it as a thumb drive to access all my laptop files.
Great experience.
I’m using an M2 NVME drive via a USBC caddy.
Maybe it’s a driver (power management) issue but mine is way too power hungry for that. This thing guzzles 3% battery in 2 minutes. Also gets quite hot.
Is it a live bootable OS or a complete installation?
Full installation. For the OS it’s just a drive.
running cachyos on a t420 and i’m currently trying to get my t61 working again :)
Im using a super modern Thinkpad with Linux. But I have some old options too. I also have a 2015 Macbook Pro running Ubuntu 26.04.
Hello fellow X201 user. I too used EndeavourOS on my X201 for a long time, though currently I’m using Void on it (which I like a lot more). While KDE runs on it fine I mostly preferred river+waybar+fuzzel setup. Intel iGPU on this device really sucks by the way. :)
My daily driver is a t450s running Fedora Kinoite. It’s great, all working fine, but browsing is getting a bit heavy on it, and battery life is less than an hour, so it’s mostly used stationary. Thinking of upgrading to a T14 G3.
Have you considered getting a large external battery? My 2015 T450s on Fedora still gets 6-10h battery life with 97Wh between the two batteries. Mostly stock with a repasted CPU 6 years ago (probably needs to be done again) and an M.2 2242 as the boot drive, with a 2.5" SSD as the D: drive.
Guess I could do that, didnt think about that. I will check it out, thanks!
Simon Stalenhag! Nice wallpaper. I have a bunch of his images for mine as well.
That looks like a rendered version of the art for the board game Scythe (which is excellent)
I’ve been running NixOS on a T430 from 2012 as my daily driver for over a year now and it’s been the most fun I’ve had with a computer in a long time. The first couple weeks was a hell of a learning curve (because of Nix) but so worth it!
i have multiple t/x/w 20/30 thinkpads, i usually use the w520 the most because of its 1080p display and 7 row keyboard
Was but it was a dual core and I kept getting shipped doa or wrong cpus to upgrade it so I quit
Anyone here using an old ThinkPad with Linux?
can’t see using anything else honestly; there aren’t a lot of laptops left that satisfy the repairable & modular 2-in-1 niche like the X2xxT series and earlier yogas do.
