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 You may say "use Debian instead" but come on, I don't want to work with a 3-year old kernel and outdated packages.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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I didn't actually you used a thinkpad since some time. Nice one! What are you planning for it for the future?
ReplyDeleteCouldn't responded to your comment at the time, but for now I'm gonna use with Arch and won't bother myself with a different OS at all. I'll code, watch anime/movies, write stuff with the laptop. I have a very, very slim chance to try Hackintosh in this hardware but maybe it won't happen at all.
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