Any machine that old will get screwed by the demands of youtube, the single core Pentium M will also struggle with a modern browser on modern sites like reddit which use lotsa JS.

Get a Core 2 Duo machine at a minium for video 480p & browsing.

X41 uses a 1,8in HDD not standard 2,5in HDD might be part of your problem?

You'll have seen on Phoronix that the new Z13 TP doesn't allow Linux to be installed. Lenovo have now released a pdf showing how to fix this little snafu caused by the Microsoft marketing dept.

link https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobi ... re_PCs.pdf

According to this article , the Mesa DRI code supporting most older graphics chipsets (i965 tree) is going to be deprecated soon. The new driver appears to support only Haswell and above. Meaning that in 2025, when Windows 10 is finally discontinued, there will probably no way to run a modern OS of...

SSD for storage, max out to 16GB of RAM. This Ultrabase: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_UltraBase_Series_3 If you have the money: FHD screen upgrade, Motherboard with Quad Core CPU, classic keyboard. The X230T keyboard is certainly OK but it's not comparable to a X61, so look at the classi...

Just retired my X230T after 5 years at work, used on shopfloor, at customers and in the field making extensive use of the annotation abilities. Replaced by a Thinkpad Yoga 260.

Starting today Firefox is throwing errors that suggest the forum domain cert has expired. Any one else getting these?

Hey, does anyone know what would be good values for the following Swap, ZSwap etc. settings: # in /etc/sysctl.conf: vm.swappiness=20 vm.vfs_cache_pressure=100 vm.dirty_ratio = ?? vm.dirty_background_ratio = ?? # in /etc/default/grub: zswap.enabled=1 zswap.compressor=lz4 zswap.max_pool_percent=30 zs...

X61 is the smallest form factor fully featured ThinkPad. It also happens to be a classic design with the 4:3 screen nearly completely filling its lid area. The biggest problem with using old ultraportables in their intended purpose is that good batteries are not easily accessible, plentiful, or aff...

Debian is the best choice... but many people are scared as they perceive it more complicated as Ubuntu or Linux Mint (false argument if you ask me) or too boring compared to distros like Arch... but Debian is able to do everything you want it to do and this in probably the best maintained distro of...

ocaml works really well with emacs which has dunes-mode now along with tuareg & merlin I actually use emacs daily - but only for note taking. I am aware of tuareg and merlin, though dunes-mode is new to me. If there was any up-to-date resource on the best way to set these tools up/use them in 2021,...

On the subject of how much omph you need for Software development.. I noticed that some more obscure corners of universe - Rust, OCaml - may require you to use a new generation of editors - VSCode (steer clear! use it's telemetry-free carbon copy called VSCodium instead), possibly Atom (VSCode's sp...

I'd suggest something from the last decade at least. The T60 is what... around 15 years old by now? And it has quite some notable limitations: * 3GB RAM max * limited to dual-core CPUs, 2.3GHz max (the overpriced T7600) * SATA 150MB/s * weak graphics (unsuitable for modern UIs) Your wrong with the ...

Its the intel gfx driver from what variant i've seen on my old uns.

Debian is more complicated in that you need to know a little a bout how you want to setup your partitions Hiya, but if you're running an SSD does it not make sense to throw everything at just a single partition? Actually it's probably better not to have swap entirely on an SSD but I have been trust...

Debian is the best choice... but many people are scared as they perceive it more complicated as Ubuntu or Linux Mint (false argument if you ask me) or too boring compared to distros like Arch Debian is more complicated in that you need to know a little a bout how you want to setup your partitions, ...

m11k wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 04, 2020 2:33 pm

Any idea why it hangs? You shouldn't need to boot into any kind of compatibility mode (which isn't really a thing), as long as you are using a 32-bit version of the OS.

Which CPU are you using? Merom can use 64bit Linux.

For me debian bullseye has been running on my T60 the last month, had buster the previous year and a half. That's with ati/radeon driver and mitigations=off kernel parameter. For the T2400 your gonna need a 32bit OS DL so make sure that's what you had, Debian still do 32bit, Arch 32bit was officiall...

I've heard of the whole cell phone issue, but I say too bad. If you don't have an LTE connection in 2019 you shouldn't be browsing the web in the first place. And its a fallacy to believe only the US has "broadband" capabilities. Many countries in fact out pace the United States in overall internet...

Pretty much moved all 4 thinkpads over to stock debian bar the X230T which is on Arch. Have mothballed my T61 with nVidia GPU as the mess that is now 340-xx on arch pretty much leaves it unsupported.

Equator Tree wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 02, 2019 5:22 am

Quite a lot of them, including React OS, Manjaro and etc. It freezes after I install the os and running it.

Do you mean it freezes after you have completed the OS install and have rebooted the machine? If so have you tried to get into a tty by Cntrl + F3??

Did some digging is this any better - Qualcomm AW-CM251HMB

AR9462

RealBlackStuff wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:02 am

Microsoft to start nagging users in April about the January 2020 Windows 7 end-of-support deadline

Given EOL it's bout the only time they have done this where you cant really complain about it.

which adapter? did you check it will pass the TRIM command?

Rumor is that this years generation is delayed because of Intel's supply issue (source: Lenovo retailer who posts in the German ThinkPad Forum). That is why the X1 models will only be released mid year and why the other models have not been announced yet. These models will definitely get announced ...

Surely the answer is to avoid Microsoft altogether. There is obviously a learning curve, but it's not huge, especially if you go for a Linux distro like Mint or Ubuntu, which are designed to be easy to use by non-geeks. Not only will you be much more secure, but the computer will run faster and the...

Some games are having trouble running on my T60 that would otherwise run under Windows XP. When trying to open Portal via Steam, an error pops up that says: -- Could not find required OpenG: entry point 'glColorMaskIndexedEXT' ! Either your video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to ...

Didn't laptop use of OLED suffer from hi energy usage and screen burn? enough that most vendors dropped it.