Gregory's ServerAfter years of Mac ownership, I’ve finally escaped and discovered true gaming.
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@nysepho I’m actually loving it, perfect for random projects I hack on. Portable. Well-supported. I had no idea what to do Linux wise (it’s never been a desktop OS for me) so I just went with Arch and KDE Plasma. Minimal!
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@ret nice! I ran Arch on a ThinkPad for one of my first software development jobs and it was just the perfect setup for me. The only minor complaint I had was that the
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@nysepho I was actually stunned that the fingerprint reader worked and integrated well with a lot of stuff. Works for desktop environment login and even PAM integration. Typing your username at a tty login and getting the
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@ret ohh that's really neat! I honestly thought fingerprint readers in Linux would be a real pain to get working. Well, maybe on a Dell or something..
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@nysepho Yeah I think they are on a lot of laptops, but it still seems like whatever periphs ship with ThinkPads tend to get support quite quickly!
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@marmar22 this, frozen bubble, and some other weird vertical scrolling type one I can only vaguely remember. They all came on the ~6 package volume CDs in the boxed version of MandrakeLinux that was inexplicably on sale at a local PC chain store when I was about 12. My first taste of Linux! 
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@ret there is a fork of Tux Racer that is still maintained and packaged in many linux distributions. https://sourceforge.net/projects/extremetuxracer/ |
@ret laptop goals :blobfoxaww: