My boss gifted me an old thinkpad x31

I'm new to Linux; what's with the ThinkPad hype?

makes me think of the good ol't times when the air was cleaner, roads were safer and our bosses used to pay us in Thinkpads, not this "fiat money" nonsense.

Very cool. I love those IBM Thinkpads. Fuck lenovo

I wish someone randomly gifted me a thinkpad as well

Thigh socks not included

Good boss. What are you using it as? I'm guessing some homelab setup but will be interesting to know

I'm a gnu/linux noob. I recently installed Pop OS on two older laptops. Am loving it so far. Going to work on getting games functioning on one of them next.

Was blown away when the built-in Disks program was able to easily fix a couple of thumb drives I have that were suffering from logical corruption. They were completely unusable in Windows 11. I tried 4 different methods in Windows 11 to fix them, with zero luck. Disks fixed them in 2 clicks. They are nicer thumb drives and were somewhat expensive. I am very happy to have them back.

These are good at holding all sorts of things like doors.

Nice. I use older lappies to remote control my i7 machine. They can be fairly good dumb terminals.

What distro did you put on it?

Libreboot it.

I like your boss.

I'd run XFCE themed with Chicago95 in this everyday.

I wonder what distro did you use

This is from 2004: https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/ibm-thinkpad-x31 It will chew amps (electricity). Recycle it as best you can. Grab a modern box instead.

Unless sparks are free where you live, this beast will become a liability very quickly.

You can just tickle the nipple?

Due to no mousepad I would recommend installing a tiling wm like sway (forgot to mention I use a Thinkpad, yes I know about the nipple. But consider the extremely high quality keyboard).