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Apparently the reason my computer has been taking 2 minutes to boot was a faulty network mount

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heads

Dang, my T410 is just too old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how does it run modern OSses?

Its crazy how expensive T430 etc still are. People know how great they are

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm shocked how smoothly it runs Gnome on Debian 12. KDE on NixOS was okay but had some noticeable slowdown. Here I was thinking it would be relegated to being an Arch CLI terminal.