Hello from my new Thinkpad

My Thinkpad arrived yesterday. :jazz-hands:

I decided to go with Fedora i3 spin for my distro and desktop environment. I was trying to balance nerdiness and usability. Arch was calling me, and I may go there next. But I don’t know how much hacking time I’ll end up having on this thing, so I leaned toward a just-works approach, scoring my nerd points with i3 rather than Arch and rolling updates.

And boy do I love reuniting with i3. I love its speed and power. I also appreciate how different it is from macOS. I was eager for that sort of change of scene.

Speaking of changes of scene, I’m digging the Thinkpad so far. The FHD+ screen seems plenty sharp even though I’ve been spoiled by Apple’s high-DPI displays for so many years. The keyboard is great. It’s nice that I can change the role of the function keys on the fly with FnLock. And I like having physical pointer buttons above the trackpad.

It seems to handle power management with the sleep/wake cycle nicely. It wakes immediately upon opening the lid, just like a MacBook. I’m still at 85% battery now at 10:30 PM having used it on and off throughout the day. And this is a used machine off Ebay, mind you, so I assume the battery’s been around the block a few times.

I want to think more about why I find Linux so appealing. Maybe I feel coddled by macOS, or maybe it’s just itchy feet. Dunno. Too tired to figure it out.

See ya. 👋