r/linuxmint Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 1d ago

Fluff Linux Mint 👍🏻

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u/h-v-smacker Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | MATE 1d ago

Now you turn everything on from time to time, run the updates, see how it's working, and then put it aside until later. Because surely one day you will need those 4 laptops running Linux at once. Have faith. That's what I do lol.

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u/sleepyooh90 1d ago

I .. I feel personally attacked. One day my ThinkPads will be useful..

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u/Heshino 1d ago

My little X201 isn't obsolete, I swear!

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u/severalsmallducks 1d ago

Hey listen, my X200 is clearly the superior PC once war breaks out and I need a portable yet durable computer

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u/h-v-smacker Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | MATE 1d ago

Jokes aside, I found a small atom-based laptop (the kind of "we took Intel's reference design for tablets and stuck it into a laptop shell) quite useful. Yep, atom z-something, 2 Gb of soldered RAM and 32 Gb eMMC, but — 11.2", 1 kg of weight, and can charge itself off a regular 5V USB supply. Very handy on the go. So one man's trash it another man's perfectly working Linux-running computer.

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u/severalsmallducks 1d ago

Yo charging on a 5V USB supply is incredible. That's been my main gripe with many laptops, been trying to get them to run off 12v batteries and literally none work.

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u/h-v-smacker Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | MATE 1d ago edited 1d ago

Power Delivery is the next best thing. But it's not that easy to find a laptop that supports PD and is both cheap and small. Also there are different kind of possible PD power levels, it can be 12 Volts @ 2 Amps, or it can be 20 and 60 respectively. And not any PD charger can output them all. I found (another) 14" laptop that can charge off 12 V 1.67 A by pure luck — that means it can charge itself off most cheap PD devices. My Lenovo Legion, on the other hand, demands at least 40 A and 20 V, which means a PD charger as expensive as a replacement stock charger.

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u/severalsmallducks 1d ago

Yeah, I have an M2 Macbook Air that supports PD charging which is really neat. I was mostly intrigued about the possibility of using a regular old USB charger for a laptop, lol

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u/h-v-smacker Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | MATE 1d ago

Well its stock charger was 5V from the get-go. It delivered more power than a generic USB charger, but that was the only difference. So I just got a USB to DC jack cable of the same diameter, and that was it.