Welp, my job requires me to be on the road again every week, COVID be damned.
I shall need a new personal computer, and as such, will need a desktop environment. I'm considering a Dell XPS 15 or the Lenovo linux laptop
thingie. I'll install Arch, but beyond that am curious if folks have
preferred DEs. Ricing these things is a fun time waster.

Lately I'm into bspwm with sxhkd and polybar, with conky and picom. Any other linux geeks out there? What's your preferred lightweight DM?

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Welp, my job requires me to be on the road again every week, COVID be damned.I shall need a new personal computer, and as such, will need a desktopenvironment. I'm considering a Dell XPS 15 or the Lenovo linux laptopthingie. I'll install Arch, but beyond that am curious if folks havepreferred DEs. Ricing these things is a fun time waster.

First off, that sucks that you have to be on the road. Take extra care when flying considering it's a sealed sardine can with recycled air and all.

Second, I haven't used a Liuux based DE in years, gimme shell or give me nothing. My daily driver is a MBP that work provides, that keeps me happy.

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ryan wrote to All <=-

Welp, my job requires me to be on the road again every week,
COVID be damned. I shall need a new personal computer, and as
such, will need a desktop environment. I'm considering a Dell XPS
15 or the Lenovo linux laptop thingie. I'll install Arch, but
beyond that am curious if folks have preferred DEs. Ricing these
things is a fun time waster.

Lately I'm into bspwm with sxhkd and polybar, with conky and
picom. Any other linux geeks out there? What's your preferred
lightweight DM?

Quite a bit less geeky, but I prefer the classic Xfce desktop. Might
be a middleweight rather than lightweight, but not bad and quite
configurable.

As for the hardware, I'll never buy another laptop that doesn't say
Lenovo on it.



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As for the hardware, I'll never buy another laptop that doesn't say Lenovo on it.

Although work provides me with this MBP, I do purchase stuff for my wife and kids and all I have ever got them are Lenovo's, without question. I was a huge IBM thinkpad fan and that carried right over to Lenovo.

They all have various generations of the X1 and love them as do I, I haven't had to do any hardware maintenance on any of them.

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Netsurge wrote to Gamgee <=-

As for the hardware, I'll never buy another laptop that doesn't say
Lenovo on it.

Although work provides me with this MBP, I do purchase stuff for
my wife and kids and all I have ever got them are Lenovo's,
without question. I was a huge IBM thinkpad fan and that carried
right over to Lenovo.

They all have various generations of the X1 and love them as do
I, I haven't had to do any hardware maintenance on any of them.

Excellent! I'm currently using a ThinkPad T510 as my daily driver
(running Slackware Linux), and it's starting to get a little long in
the tooth, but I'm reluctant to replace it because I like it so much.
It still does everything I ask of it so it isn't going anywhere for a
while yet. :-)

Have yet to find a laptop keyboard that even comes close.


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Although work provides me with this MBP, I do purchase stuff for my wife and kids and all I have ever got them are Lenovo's, without question. I was a huge IBM thinkpad fan and that carried right over to Lenovo.

Are you a fan of the ThinkPad nub? I either need one of those on my laptop or I need a mouse. I can't handle a trackpad at all.

The only thing that made me move away from Lenovo is they weren't putting decent GPUs in their work laptops in the late 2000s, so I found Sager laptops. They have modern GPUs and still have a "business fuck" aesthetic. I had to have the GPU for some games while being stuck in hotel rooms all week!

Do they still have the nubs?

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Are you a fan of the ThinkPad nub? I either need one of those on my laptop or I need a mouse. I can't handle a trackpad at all.

I've gotten used to trackpads so for me is a non issue but I believe they
still have these things.

The only thing that made me move away from Lenovo is they weren't
putting decent GPUs in their work laptops in the late 2000s, so I found Sager laptops.

I think the newer generation Intel GPUs they come with are fine for my purposes. The most gaming I do is ScummVM or retro NES games, for the most part. So I'm not super concerned. I'm more interested in battery life, so an intel GPU wins :P

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Excellent! I'm currently using a ThinkPad T510 as my daily driver (running Slackware Linux), and it's starting to get a little long in
the tooth, but I'm reluctant to replace it because I like it so much.
It still does everything I ask of it so it isn't going anywhere for a while yet. :-)

Have yet to find a laptop keyboard that even comes close.

I do find their keyboards amazing.

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Are you a fan of the ThinkPad nub? I either need one of those on my laptop orI need a mouse. I can't handle a trackpad at all.

I'm not a huge fan of it, indifferent to it really.

I've become a big fan of the MacBook's trackpad. It's massive and can be very precise.

The only thing that made me move away from Lenovo is they weren't putting decent GPUs in their work laptops in the late 2000s, so I found Sager laptops. They have modern GPUs and still have a "business fuck"
aesthetic. I had tohave the GPU for some games while being stuck in
hotel rooms all week!

It's still tough to find a reasonably priced laptop with a good GPU in it, unless you want to spend a shit ton on something like a MBP.

Do they still have the nubs?

They do. I have a bag of replacement ones as between my wife and kids, they either lose them or wear them out fairly quickly.

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Excellent! I'm currently using a ThinkPad T510 as my daily driver (running Slackware Linux), and it's starting to get a little long in
the tooth, but I'm reluctant to replace it because I like it so much.

Lol, I still run a few T430s ThinkPads, specced out to 16gb RAM and decent i7 chips... but they are certainly not speed racers.

I kinda like in the old, so they still work for me!



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