Lenovo ThinkPad X61t

> It reads like this article comes from a parallel universe I think you do not understand what Raspbian/PiOS is and what it is for. The Pi started out in 2012 as a real Linux computer for kids to play with Python, at a price of £25. (It's British.) It had 1 slow ARM core and 512MB of RAM. Even in 2012 it was hard to run a graphical Linux desktop in 512MB RAM. Debian ran very poorly, for 2 reasons. 1. It's big and bloated. Still is. 2. The Debian developers assumed any Arm v6 kit would not have a hardware FPU. So, Debian for Arm v6 only did software floating point. Even slower. The Pi had an FPU. So Mike Thompson and Pete Green recompiled all of Debian. They make 2 global changes: * Arm v6 binaries with FPU support, an arch called `hardfp` * An extremely cut-down Debian desktop with an extremely cut-down LXDE desktop to run with room to spare in half a gig with only slow SD card available for swap. And they wrapped that in a dead easy installer for kids which asks no difficult questions. It doesn't ask about netboot or which desktop or what optional components you want. It asks your name, and not much else. And it gives a usable OS image that was a gig or so in size and used under 200MB of RAM when running X11. That is what Raspbian was: a super tiny super simple build of Debian for this specific kit: Arm v6 binaries with hardware FPU compiled in, plus a fancy GPU, and very little RAM and slow storage. It's been renamed PiOS but the same project continues. It's the single l…

Hardware support for esoteric things such as the new generation of Wacom EMR is still awkward --- I was able to get the previous gen working on a ThinkPad X61T using Lubuntu --- wish that there was such an easy way to try out Linux on my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360....

Never seen a thinkpad, I see. I still use an x61t that's in perfect condition.

hey friend ! I gave my mom the X61t, from the same era. For what she does, it is a marvel, from XP to 7 to 8.1, I bought her an Ipad last year since 8.1 droppped the support. I think with an upgrade of 4Gb it could be still ok in 2023. Just avoid website full of JS and videos.

Yeah, I moved from an x61t that had a cracked motherboard, after however many years, to a thinkpad yoga 12 with stylus and touchscreen. After about a week of use, I was in the bath, and I wanted to do something with my laptop, and I reached over and typed something into chromium. I didn't realize that the new yoga's don't have flow through keyboards! My laptop was ruined by the water from the wetness of my hand! Now the laptop is fixed, and a few months later I can say, the screen hurts my eyes (never had that problem before), the feet on the bottom have all come unglued, battery life is acceptable but not great, battery cannot be hotswapped, that's for sure, but mostly, I feel that this new yoga just doesn't have the sex appeal of the x61t. I could hold that x61t from any corner (probably how the motherboard eventually cracked) and the laptop just felt balanced and solid. There was no creaking of plastic on plastic, no hollow "softness"... I don't know, that laptop just was so perfect, and the yoga 12 feels like they just didn't put as much love into it. When I turn on the LEDs unter the keyboard ( a new feature ) light leaks out of some keys around the edges, while not leaking out from other keys, and the leaks shine brighter than the screen, again hurting my eyes. The power and volume keys on the right edge are hard to feal, so I have to look at them to use them, hardly convenient. There are all sorts of extra bright leds on the keyboard like the FN lock light. I've taken