I’m looking to mainly use it for school and was wondering if there’s any recommended distros out there for thinkpads.

Its a Lenovo Thinkpad T480.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I run LMDE 6 on my Thinkpad. Takes a bit of initial TLC to get tuned, but it’s rock stable.

    Cinnamon is a really stable DE, I’ve had almost zero issues ever with it. It’s a little plain, but not ugly, and you can add themes if you really want to pretty it up.

    • JustARegularNerd@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Can completely agree with the LMDE 6 recommendation

      I decided on the basis of making my hardware last as long as I can, I chucked an i7-2760QM into my Latitude E6420 and 16GB DDR3 memory, shit actually runs flawlessly with LMDE. It even was able to run Windows Server 2022 in a VM while having me screen share said VM for an assignment I had.