About a few months ago, I finally bought a Lenovo ThinkPad T470 for 6300 Turkish liras, which makes 174USD as for the date of the blog.
I always wanted a ThinkPad to tinker with it, or use as a personal engineering & IT tool. Started to save cash and waited after months after months, almost a year, finally got one.
It was shipped with Windows 10, which is not my preference for this machine. It should get refreshed with a Linux distribution, right? First, I wanted to try Fedora Linux. Unfortunately, it wasn't good in terms of performance. Then I tried Ubuntu later, it was better than Fedora but still not good enough.
I finally tried my last resort. Arch Linux. Like I said, I want to use this for my personal purposes and make it stable enough for use. You may say "use Debian instead" but come on, I don't want to work with a 3-year old kernel and outdated packages. In exchange of "stability", I got performance. I used Arch instead. I already know Arch Linux well and I daily drove the OS with i3wm in my desktop (Which currently has Windows 10).
Result? Though it is considered as a "unstable" distribution, I never had problems with it and never changed the distribution ever again. It was running perfect, and I'm currently writing this blog from Arch. Sometimes I had intrusive thoughts about changing to Gentoo, but that won't happen in near future (or is it?).
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