I wouldn't even call the left side a "tech" enthusiast. More like a fad or clout enthusiast...
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A Thinkpad running windows is just disgraceful. Good hardware deserves good software
What are the options? Linux is meh on desktop. I love Linux and FreeBSD for servers but for desktop duty I still find Windows to be vastly superior.
Exactly. Mine shipped w/ Windows, but it never ran Windows (at least I never did). Installed Linux day 1.
I ran over mine with my car (by accident, of course) and it survived, I'm still using it even though I had to take some acrews out to relieve the pressure from the fan because it was hitting the case and sometimes I have to fold it a bit to the other side so it doesn't make noises.
So I guess I'm the second one
it better be getting ready to be linuxed
No I was planning on using it with Nvidia drivers and secure boot.
Only a little bit. Genuinely go grab a laptop and try to get everything up and running with Nvidia drivers, secure boot, full disk encryption, and tpm unlock (server application, no typing password allowed).
It's not particularly easy. (Except, somewhat ironically, with arch).
My experience was following the fedora instructions immediately broke the boot, following the opensuse instructions worked up until I had an unexpected power loss and then it wouldn't boot anymore (truly bizarre as the thing that lost power was the external zfs drives not the os drive). Only arch had a fully sane and functional set of instructions.
Or just avoid nvidia in the first place and it mostly just works.
I've done it with Suse more than once, but not with ZFS. Using ZFS with Linux still tends to be a crapshoot. I've given up on nvidia; if they want to be money grubbing assholes they can get other people money, but not mine.
https://blog.entrostat.com/installing-nvidia-drivers-on-a-linux-laptop-with-secure-boot-enabled/
That's not been a problem for a while now
Oh I know, and as of 2025 fedora even has it built in from what I read. We are truly living in the future.
I've actually ran a server for a few weeks with a heatsink just sitting on the CPU with a dab of thermal paste.
I was waiting for mounting hardware. Thankfully it was a PGA so mounting pressure didn't match much.
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