not that open - I tried to run rm -rf in the terminal and it did nothing.

bunches of refurbished t-series thinkpads out there - t480, t430, etc. apparently the 490 is one to avoid. I got a t470 some months back for $150 - put mint on it and have been very happy with the performance.

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got a t470 refurb for $150 last year and have been very happy with it.

wow, everquest is still a thing? that’s sort of amazing.

that’s ok, ill just use linux

win10 is still supported for 3 more years - if you pay for it.

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tried to do that but mom wanted some esoteric bookkeeping software to function - so back to windows for her

well, to an extent that xorg only exists in outdated distros that no longer get updates is what I meant - but in essence, yes.

it sure will be interesting when xorg gets deprecated

bought a (used) t470 a few months ago, been happy with it - especially for the price.

this should be a sticky for the community. simple, concise, answers the major questions.

been rockin kde neon for the last little while, but also really like mint

hoohoo! Linus pulled a scream test and then forced the naysayers to maintain the crap they want. rofl

xorg is going to die eventually. probably long after the xorg fanbois, but it will die - and wayland or something better will take its place.

what’s up with this? I see this school of thought bandied around quite a bit recently. wayland… it’s a protocol. do they hate tcp/ip too? can they boycott that instead?

cheering in the streets? orgies?

if you want to try other distros, try using gnome-boxes for a bit - it lets you easily spin up a virtual machine. there’s better vm apps out there but boxes is really simple to use. I played around with getting Arch installed via cli last night in a vm (via boxes) - didnt actually install it of course, just re-partitioned the /dev/vda, etc.

I was using mx linux for a while on my testbench machine, switched over to kde neon recently and it’s a much better experience.

mint or lmde?