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  • technomancytechnomancy@hey.hagelb.org
    Oct 14, 2026, 6:14 AM

    my X260 was my main machine, so before I put NetBSD on it I swapped the drive with its Debian install out into this T410 (where I'd tried and failed to put netbsd ~a month ago)

    and I just can't get over how much nicer the T410 is overall with its classic keyboard, better aspect ratio, and matte display (if only it ran netbsd!)

    I could just stick with the X260 and not buy a T480 now that it's booting NetBSD, but the display is just soooo bad... I can put up with the keyboard because I'm often using at external kb anyway

    as much as I'd like a T480 I'd rather not make this thing e-waste unnecessarily, but if I'm gonna stick with this as my main I'm going to have to at least look into replacing the display with a matte one, ugh

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  • >>>>>>>artemis@with.iridium.ink
    Oct 14, 2026, 6:21 AM

    @technomancy if you want to sell me a laptop, again lol, i guess i could buy an x260 to try netbsd on myself (i think it would work ok on my x220 because my friend used to run netbsd on it, but i dont really want to mess with dual booting rn).

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  • technomancytechnomancy@hey.hagelb.org
    Oct 14, 2026, 6:26 AM

    @artemis glossy screen isn't too much of a deal killer for you? I still have the original screen too which is matte but it's low res and pretty dim

    if you're interested tho it could be a good excuse for me to "splurge" on that t480 lmao

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  • >>>>>>>artemis@with.iridium.ink
    Oct 14, 2026, 6:27 AM

    @technomancy oof glossy. i'd rather have the original screen, i hate high res screens on the X line anyway. my x220 rocks a 1366x768 matte TN panel and thats the way i like it

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  • >>>>>>>artemis@with.iridium.ink
    Oct 14, 2026, 6:35 AM

    @technomancy but yeah, my only other laptop candidate for netbsd rn is like my vaio, which has a number of issues. not least of which, netbsd doesnt have the driver that linux has to let it memory map the LCD framebuffer and change video modes. so it's stuck in high res mode, and the laptop's VGA compatibility layer has too much overhead and heavily bottlenecks screen updates

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  • >>>>>>>artemis@with.iridium.ink
    Oct 14, 2026, 6:37 AM

    @technomancy lmk if the hdmi out works though, ive had issues with hdmi on skylake integrated graphics with netbsd in the past, but it was on a desktop machine

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  • technomancytechnomancy@hey.hagelb.org
    Oct 14, 2026, 2:59 PM

    @artemis I'll check the displayport and HDMI; they worked fine on debian but lemme see what netbsd thinks of them and get back to you

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