Ah I’m in the UK, so old Thinkpads are a little less accessible! Thanks though :-)
I also have a personal policy of not replacing a device until it’s actually physically broken and beyond a reasonable ability to repair myself or via my local repair shop and my current machines are still quite strong and healthy! However, my partner wants a laptop soon so I might be able to wrangle repairing the keyboard on the machine I have folded up behind a monitor as a pseudo-desktop, and then grabbing some second hand parts to build a small desktop machine.
Otherwise, I am quite keen to try FreeBSD relatively soon even just to learn.
Ah I’m in the UK, so old Thinkpads are a little less accessible! Thanks though :-)
I also have a personal policy of not replacing a device until it’s actually physically broken and beyond a reasonable ability to repair myself or via my local repair shop and my current machines are still quite strong and healthy! However, my partner wants a laptop soon so I might be able to wrangle repairing the keyboard on the machine I have folded up behind a monitor as a pseudo-desktop, and then grabbing some second hand parts to build a small desktop machine.
Otherwise, I am quite keen to try FreeBSD relatively soon even just to learn.
nothing wrong with having a spare machine to play around with. Any major vendor laptop that you can get used should run BSD, just have to check.
Here’s a useful site:
https://bsd-hardware.info/
Like I said, any question feel free to ask.
Thanks comrade! Much appreciated.
I got FreeBSD up and running in a vm on the weekend, with i3dwm installed and started playing around. So I’m quietly confident that I’ll enjoy it.
nice check out the official handbook, it’s pretty helpful
One of the cool features of FreeBSD is ZFS boot environments, worth checking out imo.