What computer do you use?

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Re: What computer do you use?

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I run a ThinkPad X200s with GNU Boot and GNU Guix System.

My server Farnsworth is a ThinkCentre.
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I have an update to mine!

So the Framework laptop totally didn't work out (seems they still have some QA issues to work out), so I returned it and instead got the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i and threw in my 4TB NVMe drive that has Ubuntu on it. I know, I know, but it's stable, and that's all I ask of a computer these days. I did have to change the desktop environment to KDE's Plasma, since the color management was insane (the colors were super saturated, but switching to Plasma totally resolved it). Since this has a built in 4060, I can also do test renders on the couch, which I am a big fan of.
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rejectconvenience wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:23 pm I have an update to mine!

So the Framework laptop totally didn't work out (seems they still have some QA issues to work out), so I returned it and instead got the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i and threw in my 4TB NVMe drive that has Ubuntu on it. I know, I know, but it's stable, and that's all I ask of a computer these days. I did have to change the desktop environment to KDE's Plasma, since the color management was insane (the colors were super saturated, but switching to Plasma totally resolved it). Since this has a built in 4060, I can also do test renders on the couch, which I am a big fan of.
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The keyboard/trackpad would constantly disconnect and reconnect over and over, it was unusable as a laptop. Plugging in an external keyboard and mouse worked fine, but that's not why I got a laptop. Tried going back and forth with support, they eventually sent me a midplate replacement, which resulted in the same issue. I really have no idea what the actual problem was, I requested to returned it at that point, as I had it for nearly a month and I was just tired lol. I had done things like swapping the RAM, (I even went to a Best Buy and bought new RAM and tested it right in the store with the same issue), reseating every single cable and connection, BIOS updates, I even put Windows on it at one point to see if it was maybe a Linux issue, even thought it was also a problem in the BIOS itself. I suspect it was a motherboard issue, but I really have no idea at the end of the day, there were too many variables. It could have been one of the modules, it could have been the keyboard, and going back and forth with support via email with multiple days between responses was not the most satisfying thing in the world when I was trying to do my job with the dang thing.

I know what it's like to be on a small support team, and even a big support team, so I'm not upset with anyone I interacted with (though, every response was from a different person, which was a little weird. Seems like "case ownership" isn't really a thing over there). Knowing they're a smaller company, I'm not super surprised with some of the response times, my only wish was that they asked me to troubleshoot more than one thing at a time. If you know your responses are gonna take a couple days to get back to me, make me try like 5-6 things, ya know? But again, I get it for sure.

If I was using it as a more casual device, I think Framework would have been much more acceptable, but I bought it to deal with my YouTube stuff, so it wasn't ideal for me to be troubleshooting and have it not work with what I bought it for. I just needed a thing that worked, and this Lenovo is working perfectly so far. And if it stops working, I can just waltz into a Best Buy and return it for a new one same day, no questions asked.
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I totally get that. Update from me, I also get a new laptop - a ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 (Intel) - and I chose it over the Framework for that reason. I didn't want to gamble with a small issue that I wouldn't be able to solve. So far my experience on my ThinkPad has been great, but at least the one I picked up is one of the new repairable ones to still send the signal that I value repairability. I also got the option with Ubuntu preinstalled to send the signal that I want to be able to buy Linux laptops!
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