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I've had great luck with T-series ThinkPads. I'm using a T520 as a daily driver at the moment and I've had no real issues with it. I installed it on an E series

I've had great luck with T-series ThinkPads. I'm using a T520 as a daily driver at the moment and I've had no real issues with it. I installed it on an E series laptop a while ago and had issues with sound (this was a few versions ago, probably 6.3, and I was just playing around at the time so I never figured out what the problem was). Mind you I use this mainly for work so my needs are simple, an editor, a browser, a compiler and the like. The default window manager cwm makes for a simple "desktop" for me and the only thing I use at the moment for work that's not from base is mariadb, vim and firefox (plus dependencies of course). So I don't have a lot of splashy graphics to load or anything like that and don't do video or image editing very often. But even if you do need more, the package repository has a huge selection of programs and in my experience they all just work when installed. On the other hand I put Battle for Wesnoth on it and although that's not really a very graphics intense game it runs great on the laptop. Overall I really like using it day to day.

morganvachon 6y ago
> The default window manager cwm Just a slight correction, if you meant the "default" as in the window manager that starts on a freshly installed system: It's not cwm but fvwm. With that said, OpenBSD ships with cwm and it's trivial to switch between the two, but they are very different.
- smhenderson 6y ago
  Oh, you're right, I'd forgotten that. I think it's so ingrained in me to copy my dotfiles to a new machine before I do much else that I don't usually ever see fvwm. I always add myself to doas, move some public keys around, install a few packages and then copy my dotfiles before I ever launch X for the first time. And yes, they are very different. I remember using fvwm fondly on Slackware Linux back in the mid 90's. I had hours of fun trying to configure it to look like Windows 95 and populating menus, all in a plain text file, no gui config available! I think I read somewhere recently that fvwm is still Theo's preferred WM and that's why it's the default...
  - morganvachon 6y ago
    > I remember using fvwm fondly on Slackware Linux back in the mid 90's. Same, well late 90s here, and yep that was my go-to on Slackware, mostly because it was quite usable out of the box. I eventually went to Blackbox, then Fluxbox, then Gnome about six months before Pat decided to stop shipping it. I went to Xfce from there and never looked back (I never liked KDE before Plasma, and 4.x is still the default in Slackware).

morganvachon 6y ago

> The default window manager cwm Just a slight correction, if you meant the "default" as in the window manager that starts on a freshly installed system: It's not cwm but fvwm. With that said, OpenBSD ships with cwm and it's trivial to switch between the two, but they are very different.

smhenderson 6y ago
Oh, you're right, I'd forgotten that. I think it's so ingrained in me to copy my dotfiles to a new machine before I do much else that I don't usually ever see fvwm. I always add myself to doas, move some public keys around, install a few packages and then copy my dotfiles before I ever launch X for the first time. And yes, they are very different. I remember using fvwm fondly on Slackware Linux back in the mid 90's. I had hours of fun trying to configure it to look like Windows 95 and populating menus, all in a plain text file, no gui config available! I think I read somewhere recently that fvwm is still Theo's preferred WM and that's why it's the default...
- morganvachon 6y ago
  > I remember using fvwm fondly on Slackware Linux back in the mid 90's. Same, well late 90s here, and yep that was my go-to on Slackware, mostly because it was quite usable out of the box. I eventually went to Blackbox, then Fluxbox, then Gnome about six months before Pat decided to stop shipping it. I went to Xfce from there and never looked back (I never liked KDE before Plasma, and 4.x is still the default in Slackware).