Oscar

That’s OK, we all got our own preferences 😉 But I think you will be pretty good to go on t495. It has apparently been linux certified on older Ubuntu, which Mint is based on.

https://ubuntu.com/certified/201905-27049

Also linux certified by Lenovo:

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd500343-linux-certification-thinkpad-t495-20njz4krus

For arch you can look here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T495

Drop oh-my-zsh and look for something else to customize your prompt. I like Powerlevel10k but Starship is good too.

Ah yes, because rich == bad

It’s possible to be successful and have a good influence on the industry. Valve is the perfect example of that.

That would be similar to saying you are assuming the user has opened the gui application, not just randomly clicking the desktop.

Of course I’m assuming they already know what application they want to use before exploring its capabilities.

$ command -h
$ command --help
$ man command

I have a lot of tab completions installed, too, so i can also just hit tab to get a list of all possible options, etc.

𝕏 (U+1D54F) and/or 𝕩 (U+1D569)

If you search blackboard bold or double-struck letters you can find more.

There’s definitively more to a distro than the shell prompt and wallpaper.

Besides the obvious package repos and how well package interoperability is maintained, there’s also differences for default configuration. OpenSUSE offers sane options for security OOtB, IMO.

Then there’s also linux itself. Some distros build the default kernel package with a set of patches to improve typical usability, while others just ship an untouched upstream version. Some offer alternatives while others don’t.

That’s not what they, or the stats, said. You can use chatgpt without plagiarizing, just like how you can use wikipedia without copy-pasting the whole article.

I meant for all packages. But when it comes to the actual details on how to do it, I’m not super sure. I know pacman is pretty sophisticated so it might support querying the package repo (or local package db) somehow. I would start by looking up the -F option.

I would start by looking at what files are included. There’s the obvious .desktop entry, but also checking if there are any files put into /bin/, /usr/bin/, /usr/sbin/ etc. should suffice.

If you consider some of these packages as “dependencies” then look at if anything depends on it. But there are application-packages that others depend on, such as coreutils.

without explicit consent

Couldn’t they just add another ToS checkbox to click when installing the game?

At least to my understanding. My model is the T14 Gen 1 (AMD). But I would recommend checking newer models.

A few points that indicates this:

1. It’s possible to order it with linux preinstalled:

   In limited countries or regions, Lenovo offers customers an option to order computers with the preinstalled Linux® operating system. - User Guide, Appendix C

2. Ubuntu 20.04 certification: https://ubuntu.com/certified/202006-27980

3. RHEL 8.3 certification: https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware/detail/71625

4. There’s a “Linux Certification” page (whatever that means): https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/pd500492

5. The BIOS software comes with linux instructions. Though I just use whatever is available with fwupd, which is a CLI application but has GUI support through Gnome with gnome-firmware.

More info about linux support here, under “Notebooks and Laptops”: www.lenovo.com/linux

A million edits later: I got confused by what the product ID was but I think I finally figured it out.

My thinkpad model officially supports linux, so there is no problem there. It is also much cheaper than any of those brands, and it’s also available from the regular stores.

I use debian 12 on my work laptop. I agree with your points but I still use it because I want the fundamental system to be stable, and then any software I want to be more up-to-date I build from source (tmux, alacritty, neovim) or download separately (vscode/slack/joplin).

I used to use ubuntu because it worked so well with my hardware ootb, but I got tired of snap.

I will sound really nit-picky buy the biggest thing keeping me away from using KDE is that accent-colored bar on each window in the taskbar, and the different coloring of open/focused/minimized windows. I want it sleek but not cluttery.

I’ve tried about a dozen themes but I couldn’t find any that got rid of that and looked good. I tried fixing it myself but editing svg files was too difficult for me.

I hope plasma 6 adds more options for this but I’m not holding my breath.

Something i especially appreciate about winget us that it will “index” (or whatever you want to call it) software that was installed outside of it. For example if I install app XYZ through an .msi setup file, I can update it using winget.

So it seems I can also use scoop or chocolatey to install new software and then keep managing them through winget.