OT: Linux Laptops

[Michael Butash]

I just bought a new laptop, a lenovo t15g g2 laptop, and it took some
hunting.  Normally I would not have considered Lenovo, but blame Stephen
Partington for extolling the virtue of Lenovo thinkpads, and they actually
are the beefiest boxes out there.

I never buy new, always used (like a car, let some sucker take the initial
hit), usually Dell, and was looking to get base specs I need to the point I
can upgrade to what I want.  It was a year or so of hunting to buy, I
finally found one , this lenovo, around 2000 bucks with a base i7, 64gb of
ram, rtx3080 video, and no touch screen.  I ripped out the 64gb with 4x
16gb for 4x 32gb sticks of ram for a full 128 I actually need/use, added 2x
1tb 980 pro samsung disks to the 1x 1tb samsung in it (an oem 980 gen
sammy) for my os raid1 plus potential hot spare, and a lenovo tb4 dock that
doesn't include that goddamn displaylink chip for video.  Still farting
with it since I got all parts, but going to be Arch/KDE like my current box
and watching it since last weekend with htop idling for issues.  Windoze
was oddly randomly rebooting itself over a few days I was watching it for
stability., but absolutely no issues since booting linux.  Meh, windoze
shitting itself randomly is the norm.

Dell has great linux support, Mario Limoncello, one of the kernel devs
works there, and tends to keep them in control to at least consider linux.
Lenovo is chinese crap probably I figure, but at least respect the need for
power users based on thinkpad's legacy in their top-end, better or worse
seems to still mostly hold it down.  Others - ymmv, less than more mostly.
Hopefully the lenovo bios isn't creating a backdoor vnc to my desktop
perpetually found on shodan.

-mb
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