that's amazing that it's still usable today after 14 years, gives me hope that I can keep my t430 running until a similarly good device appears on the market

[–] iusearchbtw@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A t420, but yes

It's not my main machine but it is my only laptop, and sticking an extra 8gb of ram and an ssd in it was all it needed to become very responsive even for modern software. Unless you're playing video games or doing some heavyweight media editing projects, those older CPUs and GPUs can cope better than one might expect

[–] kaboom36@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago

Eyy a fellow t420 user in the wild! There is the rare game that can be played on it, I once survived off of Minecraft and holocure when my desktop's motherboard decided "no" and it was my only machine until I could get a replacement

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

versatile

sure. idk about "the most", i haven't seen it do anything that other DMs can't do with some tinkering. hell just installing cairo-dock yields a very similar ui experience imo.

usable

i can't agree, my experience is things not staying where i put them, random crashes, layout and themes not "sticking" between logins, and occasionally the entire session crashing - all this from a fresh install on an untinkered-with system, and it's been a consistent experience through the years. maybe you're luckier than i am?

best applications

i never met an application i wanted to run that i couldn't because i had the wrong DE. what are you talking about?