[themodelplumber]

I made the mistake of buying a used Thinkpad T420 and setting it up w/ Xubuntu as a fun fixer-upper side project. Now I'm way too used to it. It's my 1/2 daily driver (the other half a boring dell XPS desktop; Xubuntu) and I gave my much more capable MB Pro to my son, who uses it to watch YT videos and play games.

So far I keep finding workarounds for things that require too many system resources. It's been kind of a funny experience in that way. I really, really like that it's forced me to slow down and think.

It's a similar situation with my 2012 MSI Wind netbook, which runs Puppy Linux and is surprisingly capable with Falkon, Geany, Puppy utils, nim, Object Pascal, etc. I feel like I should be getting rid of this machine but it can really do a lot.

T420 Dislikes: It's heavy. The screen is terrible in terms of viewing angles. It doesn't show the color orange properly, so when I use it for graphics or illustrations, I have to check my work on other devices. The speaker volume isn't loud enough. The DVD drive randomly springs open every so often. I can't stand the way the trackpoint gets in my way when I go to type the B key. The literal LED lamp that shines onto the keyboard is annoying but at least it's there. There are 3 dead pixels.

This computer also dual-boots Windows 10 so I can run the sketchy software that has come with about 20 different Chinese ham radios. Thanks to the Chirp team for making this easier.