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This is a continuation of Thanks Apple.

If you know a little about me — I like my customisations. Anything you give me, if I can customise it, I'll be happy. You can read a little about it here — My terminal story….

I couldn't contain my excitement when the ThinkPad arrived. But it wasn't easy.

The day it was supposed to get delivered, I saw that the delivery was delayed because the package was received damaged at the last warehouse. I was like — what the heck.

But on the very next day it got delivered, and even though it was refurbished, I got lucky and received a brand new one.

As soon as I received it — I already had Arch on a USB ready.

But before doing anything, there were a bunch of things I had to take care of.

Logged in, it opened Windows 11. Two minutes of silence for touching Windows after a decade.

I quickly downloaded some apps, checked the battery count, and before booting into Arch I had to make sure that anything that could easily be done via Lenovo apps available in the store — let's do it first.

Mostly checked the battery count and the SSD reads and writes to get an idea of how new the laptop actually was.

It was the newest laptop you would ever get.

Checking all the keys on the keyboard through a website, checking for dead pixels ( deadpixeltest.org ), checking the microphone, speakers and webcam. Checking all the ports available.

After all of that — now comes the BIOS.

There were a bunch of things I had to take care of, which to my surprise I was not at all aware of.

Checking if any supervisor password existed — if yes, I had to either get it or return the laptop.

After checking that, I had to look into a bunch of things — including whether this laptop was owned by a company that could track it ( absolute persistence ) and I had to permanently disable it. This is a feature — if set ON, the laptop is legally bound to that person or company. Once permanently disabled, it cannot be toggled back.

After going through the internet and as many resources as possible, I got my USB booted into Arch.

It all went so smoothly, it was unreal.

Once I got in — what did I do? I was used to Mac-style window management, the smooth trackpad, and all of that.

But I had made up my mind — I'm gonna go nuts and install Hyprland, and I will never have to use a trackpad or a mouse again.

But it was a painful journey….

More coming soon.

Gracias.

My ThinkPad