I’m surprised how well my thinkpad was supported in the Fedora plasma spin. Everything just worked out of the box. No drivers were needed. Even the fingerprint reader works.

I thought it would just be for login, but even terminal will use it when I need to sudo.

How awesome!

Large corps likely have extended windows support so you might not see a large computer dump into the market. But it’s worth keeping an eye out.

I love plasma. For the longest time there was just something that felt off about it and I could never get into it.

Once I started using it with the steam deck I fell in love with it. Whatever visually thing irked me was gone and it’s such a good looking DE.

Anytime someone I know upgrades their laptop, I’m hoping they will offer me the old one 😂

In case anyone’s wondering, it’s probably because you learn that even really old computers are still really powerful and work fine under Linux especially if you’re gonna use them as a small home server.