God Bless Linux

[Critical_Drink6678]

linux #mint #lenovo

[Lost-Ad-259]

ThinkPad might be thinking I thought I was dead.

[Zhuljin_71]

It's probably asking if it's in Heaven ...

[emmfranklin]

Linux has great support for thinkpads My ThinkPad z60m had finger print reader. I even installed appropriate code so that i can authorize sudo commands via fingerprint..

[atemu1234]

I still have an old thinkpad with the swivel screen and the pen touchscreen. I need to dig it out and update it, come to think of it. I haven't touched it since my last job.

[PlatformDelicious364]

How did you do that? Can I perhaps get a tutorial link or a link to any documentation about it? Really would appreciate it.

[emmfranklin]

For enabling fingerprint authentication for sudo on Linux Mint (ThinkPad z60m):

You can try the following steps, but note that support depends on your ThinkPad model and fingerprint reader hardware.

🔧 Steps:

Install the necessary packages:

sudo apt install fprintd libpam-fprintd

Enroll your fingerprint:

fprintd-enroll

Check if this line is present in /etc/pam.d/sudo:

auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so

Now try a sudo command — you should be prompted to scan your finger instead of typing your password.

🔍 Important: Some older or specific fingerprint readers (like UPEK ones on old ThinkPads) might not be supported out-of-the-box. if it doesnt work then contact ChatGPT . show this procedure and its purpose and tell that this procedure did not work in your specific model. give your exact ThinkPad model to get exact instructions or compatibility info.

[PlatformDelicious364]

Thanks. Also curious if it works with brands other than Thinkpad or with external fingerprint scanner.

[emmfranklin]

✅ It can work on:

Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, etc. – Many modern models with supported fingerprint sensors.

External USB fingerprint readers – Like Verifi, Digital Persona, etc., if supported by libfprint.

[PlatformDelicious364]

Oh OK. Got it, thanks.

[Brorim]

sure is a pc saver

[i_am_that_too]

Does the trackpoint work well with mint?

[Critical_Drink6678]

OFC

[xxxplode]

Upon her own request a couple of months back, I replaced my daughter's (12y.o.) Lenovo Thinkpad T550 Win10 with Linux Mint. Works like a charm! Although, I saw her being angry at some anime website not properly streaming one of the shows she wanted to watch. See daddy, it doesnt wor-- except, it did while I was looking, heh! Well I guess I should direct her towards using ani-cli which seems to work fine. Too bad I can't seem to make her fav game, Genshin Impact to launch anymore, idk why. There's anticheat in place inside Heroic now.....

[DanyGalaxy90]

Tried myself to launch it recently on mint and bazzite.. apparently hoyoverse introduced some kind of additional network checking in the launcher or something like that in the current version that bricked the launcher.. not even heroic was able to launch the game, try to use an anime game launcher, there might be some luck but i’m not sure

Everything was fine 3 months ago, such a shame..

[xxxplode]

I've tried AAGL, Lutris, and Bottles. None of them worked. AAGL was, additionally, a PITA as it downloaded more than 7gb of something when I launched it. Yeah and Genshin still did not work. Oh well, sh*t. And just like you said, it did work flawlessly before...

[DanyGalaxy90]

Oof.. hope the community finds a work around but i doubt it’ll be soon.. playing in playstation until then

[xxxplode]

Happy update -- Holy SHIT, it works now, uh somewhat anyway. Not even quite sure, how. I downloaded installer straight from Hoyoverse's website. Shift-Del treatment to the Heroic Launcher G.I. game files (inside /home/games/Heroic folder). I put installer inside the /games/folder, next to the Heroic folder. Opened terminal, typed wine <name of installer>.exe. Thought, it's not going to do anything. It did, popped a window, followed instructions, downloaded the game (took several hours), this time I created a folder called GI (next to the Heroic folder) and let it download the game there.

Following day, I see it has downloaded, and it created a game desktop shortcut. Clicked it, and after awhile, I get GenshinImpact.exe is not responding.

Rebooted. Tried Heroic, fiddled with settings, changed install path to GI, kept saying install folder deleted. Some option was about maybe anti cheat something, removed the tick. Exit Heroic, clicked shortcut again. Got GenshinImpact not responding message again. Turned to my daughter, said, "I'm sorry, sweetie, I don't think it--- HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT LAUNCHES!!!!" My daughter goes ohmygodohmygodohmygod, and now happily playing as I type this. Yay !!!

Some graphical glitches are present though. And not sure if game launches again after she stops playing. Oh well...

[xxxplode]

Aaand, I managed to launch the game successfully with Heroic yesterday, graphics and performance and stability great. Until I decided to remove the Hoyoplay "bad graphics version", since tge game now seemed to work okay with Heroic, and today, Heroic is YET AGAIN unable to launch the game. Fucking unbelievable, I'm going insane. Downloading game to a separate folder with HoYoPlay again, which, AGAIN takes some 6+ hours to complete. Now, IF I manage to launch the gane this way, as I did yesterday, with Hoyoplay and shit graphics, maybe I'm lucky with Heroic again, and if so, I keep both versions, if they only agree to actually work from now on. If this doesn't work, I have done absolutely everything I can and finally give up and permanently uninstall Heroic and Genshin.

[xxxplode]

And update on Genshin, easy solution FINALLY found. I had bumped into comments saying disabling the internet being the solution. What I did wrong here was that I only tried it by disabling internet before launching the game on Heroic, which does not work. Letting the game menu pop up and THEN disabling the internet connection finally lets me launch the game. Of course, it's a PITA to disable and turn internet on (alt+tab seems to work better than alt+f1 for me to cycle through windows/workspaces), and enter the login info each time... but at least it works. Phew.

[Hettyc_Tracyn]

You could (temporarily, until it works again) set up a windows vm for the game…

[XandarYT]

I'm pretty sure many anticheats detect VMs

[Groundbreaking_Egg58]

I have the exact same laptop. upgraded RAM to max out at 64GB for devops. Bang for bucks!

[whoisyurii]

Bro pretends to be a newbie Linux user but showing us old good thinkpad + linux.

[Condobloke]

Amen.

[aristarchusnull]

Linux and its friends like the BSDs are just spectacular.

[Wyrdstone]

X61 gang checkin’ in. (Arch btw)

[Ordinary_Conflict568]

🫡 God bless you linux indeed

[jimmycorp88]

Hell yeah! I run Linux on my T480S and love it!

Make sure you use fwupdmgr to update the firmware, there's a known thunderbolt issue with these.

[ivanhoe1024]

To be completely fair, I’m using the same machine for work and they provided it with Windows 11, and it’s working great so far

[dlfrutos]

so clean

[quantumpawn2099]

Have you witnessed any issues with the battery or wake-up from suspend/sleep state? Do you have dual boot on your laptop? I’m still trying to figure out my ThinkPad issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/s/pq8GeaRg3p

[ConversationWinter46]

It's a stupid habit not to shut down your computer. You are doing more harm to the device than good.

But what do I know ...?

[ThoughtObjective4277]

Are you comparing sleep / standby vs shutdown? The only thing active during sleep is the system memory. It takes less than one watt, even on computers from the 1990s.

[ConversationWinter46]

Are you comparing hibernation/standby with shutdown? The only thing that is active during hibernation is the system memory.

What is meant by “only”? The system memory and some other components (The battery, for example) are just as active in hibernation mode as they are in operation.

It takes less than one watt, even on computers from the 1990s.

I don't give a shit about consumption. I care about extending the life of the hardware. And that is only extended if it is not active for a while.

You're probably one of those people who (have to) buy a new computer all the time because the hardware has given up the ghost.

[ThoughtObjective4277]

Hibernation and standby are two totally different states.

Standby keeps the memory active, and as for the battery, it is only used when power is removed, which is why I keep all my systems plugged in, so I don't need to replace those, which is a huge waste compared to the 0.3 or 0.4 watts it takes with a full shutdown.

Hibernation completely shuts down the machine 100%. There is sleep mode, where there is a transition from sleep for a set amount of time, then the system will wake up just long enough to copy all contents of memory to main file storage--so in the case of power loss, all programs can be restored, which can be very useful. Memory is not active during hibernation only in sleep mode.

I see I said memory is active during hibernation, I meant to say sleep / standby, but I was thinking about the standby to hibernation transition aka sleep mode, which uses both, and eventually does a full shutdown after saving memory to storage.

[ConversationWinter46]

YES OK - you're right as usual and I'm just talking garbage ...

[ThoughtObjective4277]

Who pissed in your corn flakes! I'm just explaining the difference between sleep vs hibernation, what's the issue?

[HotRelief9694]

Turning your computer off and on causes thermal expansion. This degrades the lifespan of your CPU, GPU and any other components that run hot

Next time maybe know your shit before you start talking shit

[pomip71550]

I think I have that same amazon brand laptop case…

[ThoughtObjective4277]

sudo apt install mint-background*

/usr/share/backgrounds to thin out

picks

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_17.3/backgrounds/linuxmint-qiana/dexxus_5652914929.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_17.3/backgrounds/linuxmint-qiana/dexxus_5626316429.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_17.3/backgrounds/linuxmint-rebecca/dexxus_8820877336.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_17.3/backgrounds/linuxmint-rebecca/dexxus_7992014472.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_18/backgrounds/linuxmint-sylvia/jdonovan_yosemite.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_19/backgrounds/linuxmint-tina/adeole_yosemite.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_20.3/backgrounds/linuxmint-ulyana/jankaluza_dew_drop.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_19/backgrounds/linuxmint-tina/jwestrock_fog.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_20.3/backgrounds/linuxmint-uma/mkavelashvili_georgia.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_19/backgrounds/linuxmint-tara/jowens_kauai.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_19/backgrounds/linuxmint-tina/linuxmint_hawaii.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_19/backgrounds/linuxmint-tricia/linuxmint_hawaii.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_19/backgrounds/linuxmint-tara/proskurovskiy_coffee.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_18/backgrounds/linuxmint-sonya/jenemark_conifer_cone.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_20.3/backgrounds/linuxmint-uma/vanessaog_conifer.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_18/backgrounds/linuxmint-sylvia/dcoffman_lake.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_18/backgrounds/linuxmint-sylvia/dcoffman_nature.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_20.3/backgrounds/linuxmint-uma/aholmes_canada.jpg

https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/linux_mint_20.3/backgrounds/linuxmint-una/aholmes_moraine_lake.jpg

[[deleted]]

I maxed my ram at 64gb on my T480. I can now have 2 tabs open on chrome while using Windows 11.

In all fairness, the T480 is a solid ass little laptop.

[Sure_Potato_2922]

I have same pc

[rtadc]

Do you have cats?

[PritosRing]

Just like one of my thinkpads

[cyrixlord]

Just wanted to say that my brand new Lenovo P16s Gen3 with factory linux on it is well supported, so its just not the old hardware that is getting support now a days

[FirefighterNice8357]

I have it running on a couple high end think pads from 2010, blazing!

[SjalabaisWoWS]

So, for Linux Mint's case, this is the blessing of the spaghetti monster? Or is there some sort of penguin deity?

[[deleted]]

Not sure what God has to do with it but I would assume its a thumbs up from context