I started using Linux at university, and my first distro at home was SuSE in 1997, because my father got the CDs at work. Then I ran RedHat for a while, because that’s what my friends were running, then Mandrake, then Knoppix, then Debian. Loved Debian and AfterStep.
About 10 years ago I moved to Ubuntu because I had a hardware issue that was solved in Ubuntu but was a pain to fix in Debian. I liked that as well.
But this year I bought a second-hand ThinkPad T490, and it was randomly locking up (mouse still moves but nothing else responds). Googling and trying to troubleshoot by looking through logs wasn’t working, and I’m pretty sure it’s not a pure hardware issue, because I’ve got it as a dual boot system because my girlfriend’s son uses windows on it, and hasn’t had any issues.
So yesterday, I decided to back up my home directory and install Debian Forky. It feels like coming home. And so far, no lock-ups…
Thanks for sharing. I’d be happy if you posted updates on other stuff that works or that gives you problems after the OS change.
Well, the middle button above the touchpad was working fine for pasting in the terminal etc, but wasn’t working to rotate the view in Blender, and also in Blender, two-finger scrolling was raising and lowering the view instead of zooming, so I had to go into GNOME tweaks and disable middle button scrolling on the pointing stick, and tell Blender not to use multi-touch gestures.
But the touchscreen works out of the box (even in the graphical installer!) as does the wi-fi module, and everything else I’ve tested so far.