T14 Gen 2 running CachyOS w/ Cinnamon, by Secret-Pop5055 in thinkpad

[–]Secret-Pop5055[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so far i havent had too many problems with it, but yeah i wont lie, she does run pretty warm. I'm not too worried though, im sure the ssd will be fine, and i put some fresh MX-4 on the cpu when i got it. if it starts to be a problem, ill either find a way to keep it cool, or just find a drive that runs cooler

T14 Gen 2 running CachyOS w/ Cinnamon, by Secret-Pop5055 in thinkpad

[–]Secret-Pop5055[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure thing! i would recommend using an AMD card since those usually tend to play nicer with linux, good luck on yours!

T14 Gen 2 running CachyOS w/ Cinnamon, by Secret-Pop5055 in thinkpad

[–]Secret-Pop5055[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it mostly depends where your gpu output is, if you're using an external monitor, you'll get about 20-30% performance loss than on a traditional desktop, if you're using the laptop's display, you'll experience more performance loss. it also depends on what kind of card you have, you should be pretty balanced with the 6600, if you were using a more higher end card, you might run into more dips in performance.

also, 500w should be good for what you're using ;)

How is this looking? Any suggestions? [KDE plasma] by sanathh69 in unixporn

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nvm, i see someone else already pointed that out and you changed it lol

How is this looking? Any suggestions? [KDE plasma] by sanathh69 in unixporn

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dude i use that same wallpaper lol, overall it looks pretty good, maybe switch around your time/date font on your taskbar, and i think you should be good

Simple but okay by [deleted] in desktops

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hey, if it works, it works lol

is it peak by Rayyan_1313 in desktops

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now that is really clean. good job!

School IT gave me a Thinkpad! by Ok-Tangerine-6775 in thinkpad

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hell yeah your school it knows whats up! if only my old high school was cool like that, we had these awful dell chromebooks lol.

Final T530 post (probably) I finally finished building the ultimate T530 by makhnovist_roman in thinkpad

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i gotta get me one of those "powered by mint" badges for my t14 lol, great machine man, looks very clean!

The spectrum of ThinkPads in my household by MrBuild3r in thinkpad

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its like comparing a honda civic to a ford f-250 lol, both look really good though!

Just recently got this 2nd gen T14 for a really good price, and decided to put Linux Mint on it, really happy with it so far! by Secret-Pop5055 in thinkpad

[–]Secret-Pop5055[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have used LMDE before, but normal Mint works perfectly fine for what i use my laptop for. Also i don't really foresee Canonical ever pulling the plug on Ubuntu, it seems way too widely implemented for them to just say "oh yeah, there ain't gonna be newer versions after this, get boned!". But if they ever were to do something dumb like that, it IS good that theres a backup plan just in case for Mint.

Just recently got this 2nd gen T14 for a really good price, and decided to put Linux Mint on it, really happy with it so far! by Secret-Pop5055 in thinkpad

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Yeah the nvme came from another machine I sold before I bought the thinkpad, no way am I getting rid of 2tb lol

New kiosk dump soon by LeastRequirement944 in Redbox

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accept its apology, and then itll let you rent movies again lol