User:FranzGratzer

Introduction

I am a graphic designer from Austria/Europe who has switched to Debian in 2008. The most common tools I do use for my work on the GNOME desktop are Nautilus, Evolution Mail, Scribus, Inkscape, GIMP, LibreOffice, gedit and FileZilla. In addition Plakativ and PDF Arranger do make my life easier when working with PDF files. I almost never work on desktop computers these days. I usually use my Lenovo ThinkPad T400s with Libreboot or sit on my Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E781. But I have installed GNU/Linux on hundreds of (mostly older) laptops for other people. Usually Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint do work well on basically all brands out of the box if those devices don't have a dedicated GPU and aren't very new any more. But I also had no issues so far with Fedora. I specifically have had very good experiences with used high-end devices from the ThinkPad T-series and the Dell Latitude series.

T61 Introduction

In a nutshell: The T61 works flawlessly and surprisingly snappy out of the box with Debian 13 – even when using the GNOME desktop environment. I didn't notice any hick-ups so far.

System information

• BIOS version: 2.29 (7LETC9WW) 2011-03-18
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2,2 GHz
• RAM: 2 x 2 GB DDR2 SODIMM 6400 (800 MHz)
• Graphics: Intel 965GM
• Display: 15,4 inch, 1680 x 1050 (16:10)
• Linux kernel version: 6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64

Installation

I first installed Windows XP in order to upgrade to the latest bios the recommended way. (I found a Windows XP Professional SP3 iso I could use for this on archive.org.) Only afterwards I inserted the system disk I had prepared on an other laptop. So it was obviously not even necessary to select any hardware-specific drivers for this system. (I will do a normal Trixie install as soon as I get the 2,5 inch SATA SSD I intend to use in this system. Then I will upgrade this report.)

Bluetooth

I don't use any Bluetooth devices. So I didn't test it.