Subj : Re: Partitions setup; good?
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Aug 17 2020 08:32:18

 Me> That's a cool laptop, I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T440p running Ubuntu
 Me> 20.04 and i3-gaps =)

You know, in the 90s I was a DOS/Windows BBS guy... and then walked away from
computers to start my career.
Switched to ALL-Apple for the next couple decades, because I hadn't learned
things after the move away from DOS by the entire PC community..
While Apple was a great platform for me to enjoy computing and actually do
some powerful things, without investing the hours into learning the platform,
when I came back to BBSing a couple years ago, I was yearning to be able to
CONTROL my systems again..

Linux was a great choice. AND, I quickly learned that I could get away with
buying CHEAP, rock-solid ThinkPad machines that still had enough pep to last
for some time.

As long as you're not into gaming, I still think a specced out ThinkPad T420+
can do a lot of daily driving for the average user.

This weekend, I got a dead ThinkPad working again (It was the trackpad...
which causes the LCD to be dead to the world when plugged in, and sometimes
gives an 8-beep POST similar to a motherboard failure. It WASN'T - thank gosh
I kept digging..) But anyway, they are easy to work on, upgradeable and China
still has every part you might need. (I ordered a new keyboard bezel, it'll
be here in a couple weeks.) 

They are tanks.



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