Months ago, I bought a used Thinkpad T470s with the hope of installing a Linux distro onto it. Unfortunately, that laptop’s plastic is infused with perfume. It’s been stored in my shed with the hope the smell will reduce over time.
Brought it into the house yesterday and, after letting the machine warm up, got to work. I downloaded Fedora Silverblue. At this point, my headache from the perfume got to be too much. Laptop is back in the shed for another couple of months.
My wins this week is deciding which distro I’m going to be using and finally trying out this machine long enough to know it’s a damn nice computer.
In hindsight, I should have bought new even if that meant buying a computer with lower specs.