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Possibly the greatest of all 'Classic' Laptops, it holds a special place in my heart, which is why I have 2 1, and why two all three of my kids have one each (thanks pandemic for home schooling), and why I have 2 x220 motherboards destined to become either home media streaming machines or home servers (maybe even a proxmox host)
Some hardware details can be found on the x220 Thinkpad page
I recently decided that despite how fantastic the x220 Thinkpad is for a 10 year old laptop, it is still a 10 year old laptop and with my having to relinquish my second 'testing' machine to my youngest son for his online learning, it was time to get something new, I was looking at various models of Thinkpad however I was reluctant to spend more that £1000 on a new laptop and ended up choosing to purchase the ~£900 E14 Gen2 AMD Thinkpad, which a has a supremely powerful AMD Ryzen 7 (4700u) processor in it. I will be collecting my thoughts and progress with Linux on the E14 page.
I have used Linux since somewhere between 2003 and 2004, here is a page that shows my Linux Journey, I am currently running Debian Bullseye with KDE-Plasma
BSD is that 'Other' opensource operating system that is not Linux, My second x220 laptop runs FreeBSD , its a fantastic Operating System and runs the KDE-Plasma desktop well
for more details about BSD (and some thinkpad specific details) just follow this link
KDE Desktop Environment, I used to run those Minimal Tiling managers, I did it for years, I even created my own LiveCD a few years ago highlighting many of these lighter environments. Then I rediscovered KDE Desktop Environment which is stupidly configurable and surprisingly light
Linux and FreeBSD CLI. Just because I run a full desktop environment does not mean I don't use the command line. In Linux I use Konsole with the Bash shell, In FreeBSD I use Konsole with tcsh. I will be creating pages that explore my favourite CLI apps and how I use them
CoreBoot is an alternative Bios firmware that delivers a lightning fast and secure boot, I have 'corebooted' 3 of the 4 fully assembled x220's I have had, and have two x220 motherboards (with physical defects) that I have also 'corebooted', its not a difficult process, but it is fairly a involved process
Many other things to follow, I hope you as a reader will follow this new journey with me