Just bought a 2nd hand thinkpad T480 and it's really awesome. Love everything about it, specially the keyboard and webcam cover.
Time to install arch on it! Let's keep it minimal: vanilla kernel but with luks+btrfs and efistub as the bootloader. Also, using doas exclusively instead of sudo. systemd-networkd + systemd-resolved + iwd for all networking.
I'm a Xorg diehard boomer. Should I finally give Wayland a try? Are we there yet?
Wayland is awesome now
Will give it a shot!
Random thought
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I've been loving it. Especially lately the pipewire stuff is super cool.. finally screensharing, obs, working great. audio implementation and use feels cleaner (it's like a combination of the best of pulseaudio and jack with wireplumber)
pipewire I already use and it's awesome. The transition from pulseaudio was so seamless.
I like sway, although i3 is around if you are into that sort of thing and insist on xorg. Something about sway feels nicer. Very hard to describe but I think I feel a difference using them.
I've used i3 but settled on bspwm. From my brief research I found out that "river" is supposed to be the bspwm wayland equivalent? I'll gitve it a shot
Have you considered Parabola? Its libre arch, and one of the best reasons to own those old thinkpads. Its glorious.
Is the only difference the kernel, i.e. linux-libre?
If so, can't I just install that kernel from regular arch?
Its kernel, libre whitelisted repos, and a few other small tweaks.
I realize I just assumed you're running libreboot firmware on the laptop, but that may not be true. Worth checking out, if not.
Last time I checked, i don't think you can libreboot a t480, maybe I'm wrong.
I'm all for using libre software and prefer it when it exists but at the same time I don't like being artificially restricted. Cool idea though!
Oh I thought the T480 was a Core2Core Duo variant... I was mistaken. My bad 😅
