So.
After long time of… desire… I ordered an used T430, for a bit below 100 euro. It seemed in a good state, had SSD, and 1600x900 screen, so, seemed good enough for that price. Albeit no battery, but I don’t need one.
Now I am excited, waiting. Though, still not sure, if I will slap NixOS on it, or maybe go wild, and maybe… Guix, or OpenBSD.
And maybe I will use that as excuse to finally poke keyboard-oriented web browsers as well, e.g Nyxt, qutebrowser, but will see
Caan’tttt waittttt
Nerd!
I love the excitement of getting a new gadget and tinkering with it, have fun!
Yup. Fun times!
You said you don’t need a battery, do you already have one or are you always using it plugged in? And if you’re always using it plugged in why not a desktop?
Not at critique at all you just piqued my curiosity. I’m excited cause you got a new toy.
I already have a desktop, but… So, in bed… I have socket right next to me. No problem. Uni? There is always a free socket.
Like, I probably will get a battery somewhere down the line, it is just, not a requirement or priority at the moment
I had a W540 which I brought back from the dead and upgraded to the maximum (4th gen i7, NVIDIA QUADRO, 16GB DDR3, SSD). The only thing I wanted to do that I ultimately didn’t was replace the display with one of the 3K ones that they made back then. Long story short I gave it away because I thought I was gonna go to college and wanted a lighter device with better battery life. In hindsight I didn’t need the new machine. I miss my W540 a lot, and I sincerely hope you have fun with your T430.
Thanks, I am definitely going to have fun with it… While, upgrading to quadcore i7 will wait a longer while, I might buy cheap used SSDs + adapter, and run 3 SSDs in RAIDZ1, just for the heck of it. Will it be practical? Probably no. Will it be fun? Hell yea.
Also, I hope, the person who got that W540, that they very much enjoyed it as well :D
I paid about twice that much for a used T440. Eight years later, it’s still my primary laptop.
I haven’t tried NixOS yet, but many things about it appeals to me. I could put it on my old laptop I guess.
It is very much a nice distro.
Some things it does so well, for example, it took away all the pain, in regards to using ZFS, and nvidia drivers. It just works. No messing with “Will this kernel work with nvidia?” and such.
And if something does break, being able to still use, the pre-update system, is just life saver sometimes.
