Bradley D. Thornton via luv-main <[email protected]> wrote:
My daily driver is a Dell Xeon lappy too. I run Slackware-current and Debian Testing (Forky) - I'd rather fix a little bork than do a manual upgrade to "stable" anyday, which is why I try to stick to Rolling Distros (that I've been able to trust for decades).
Mine runs Arch Linux. In my case, I need some of the accessibility tools (specifically, the Orca screen reader and the BRLTTY braille display support, among others). I contribute to testing of new releases, which is best done on a rolling distribution due to the dependencies involved.
Nothing I throw at it slows this puppy down, and I'm elated to hear others running Xeons out there! :)
I'm delighted with performance as well. I have access to a sophisticated and innovative braille device at the moment as part of a project. Unfortunately, if I connect it to my Lenovo machine via USB, the connection fails at a fairly low level. There's only one USB-C port on the Lenovo P51, and the port does work with other peripherals - just not this one, perhaps due to power requirements. After all, it's a 2017-era Lenovo system. Connecting the braille device to an Apple machine with more recent USB support does work.
Depending on how much of an issue this becomes, I may need a laptop upgrade. I may be able to work around it with Bluetooth, at least in the short run.
Other than this issue, I'm satisfied with the hardware. Next time, I would probably choose a machine that is on the certification list of Fedora or Ubuntu (even if I have no intention of running either).
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