And as a bonus, the touchscreen has been a pleasant surprise as a quality of life improvement. Full stack dev work has been silky smooth so far with 6 cores and 12 threads of multitasking running all my docker containers and build processes. It’s about as light and portable as you can get while still sporting a chonky, satisfying keyboard. 1 This wasn’t a surprise though, because I did my research beforehand and it looked like the consensus on the Internet was that Linux and ThinkPads get along well. Installing and setting up Arch with Gnome was about as pain-free as you could expect, with almost everything working perfectly right out of the box. This is my first self-maintained Linux laptop (my work laptop runs Red Hat but I can’t admin much on it). I immediately partitioned the hard drive for dual booting, shrinking Windows 10 down to 128GB and leaving the rest for Arch Linux. The model I ordered has a 6 core i7-10710U processor, 16GB of memory, 512GB SSD, and a 1080p touchscreen.
I sold my last Mac, a 2012 MacBook Pro (a champ of a machine that will be sorely missed) and bought my first non-Apple laptop, a 7th gen ThinkPad X1. As of today, my computing situation is completely Apple free.
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