So I’m writing this blog entry on my ThinkPad T460s. I purchased this ThinkPad as a used laptop a number of years ago and have used it on and off over the years. It’s always important to use old computers for as a long as practical, because it keeps them out of the landfills. Linux makes it relatively easy to do this; support may have been dropped for Microsoft Windows years ago but the Linux distro Fedora 41 (Cinnamon Spin), Cinnamon is a desktop environment, helps this computer run like new again.
I love it.
The ThinkPad series has some of the best keyboards I’ve ever used on a laptop. They are my absolute favorite, and that’s one of the reasons I’ve rebuilt this ThinkPad as a “distraction free” writing environment. I can type away without getting notifications from a ton of unrelated apps. Focus mode in MacOS comes close to achieving this, but it’s not 100% there.
Buying an old laptop on the cheap and turning it into a digital typewriter is the way to go.
