Hey SOLUS team and lovers of climbing up the distrowatch ladder!
It keeps happening more and more often:
Reading all those posts here and on Reddit about screen tearing, installation bugs, dGPUs by Nvidia or AMD and problems with switching between the GPUs, black screens after rebooting and whatnot I feel extremely grateful NOT to have all those problems:
I have been using a Thinkpad W530 for years, solid machine, great with a lot of Linux systems (confession: distro hopper until I got to know SOLUS), my computer in general great as most Thinkpads are with Linux.
A few weeks ago the motherboard of my W530 died, wouldn't come back to life, I did try. So I ordered a used motherboard to replace the dead one (it had even slightly better specs than my old motherboard).
Then I got my Thinkpad T430-i7-FHD out that I keep in case my kids need a replacement computer at university or school.
Popped the SOLUS SSD from my W530 in, started the machine and almost shed a few tears:
The installation and all data was there, working as if it had never been in any other machine!
When the "new" motherboard arrived two days ago I got the HMM for the W530 out and started dismantling my good ol' laptop step by step. Put the "new" motherboard in, got all parts back to where they belonged. Cross-checked with the HMM a couple of times to be sure.
3-4 hours and a few cups of strong tea later the deed was done:
I started my W530 with the SSD from my T430 and had a working laptop again, fan spinning like crazy and a BIOS from 2012!
To update that it took me a few times until the computer accepted the .iso file from Lenovo.
Yet, the update then went through without a glitch, and when I restarted the machine there was hardly a hum or a breeze from the fan to be noticed - motherboard and screen and all hardware working absolutely fine!
Now the BIOS of my computer is from September 2019, the fan hardly ever comes on and if it does I can hardly hear it, bluetooth, wifi, LAN, keyboard, CPU, GPU - it's all working again.
And my SOLUS installation is back where it all started and hasn't complained. Not once.
I can just keep using the system as if there had never been a problem.
I know, you might think "What's that got to do with the OS? It's just hardware you're talking about!"
But my point is:
SOLUS is really solid, it just works, it can handle hardware without problems (now I know why Linux users love Thinkpads so much!), it is damn well supported and just really well put together. I love it!
And therefore I would just like to say THANK YOU, GUYS, FOR YOUR GREAT WORK and all the effort that goes into supporting us everyday users every day!
I have only one small problem with SOLUS:
You have demotivated me to use or just try out other Linux systems on my everyday work computer, you have demotivated me to hop! The urge has gone!
Thank you! SOLUS is really great fun to use and a fantastic, solid system to work with!
SOLUSfiddler
Germany
