I guess not.

Most default setup would have plymouth. I did spent a moment of frustration on it. That’s why I include this part.

If you don’t think you need it, then just do the first part. If stuff goes wrong, check out my note, then do the second part.

Did the magic smoke come out?

If so, you can try replacing the chip. Some basic SMD (de)soldering is required.

If not, you can try reseating your clip. Hopefully the chip is still good. It may have more tolerance than specified.

While many comments here are correct that it would affect less than you’d expect, there are things that may not be covered.

For example:

• there’s no setting for hyperthreading
• no way to disable SATA drives, in case you’d like to be selective
• you’ll need to reflash the BIOS if you want to change boot order permanently

Also, make sure you have the correct video BIOS.

How would the lack of passive CPU powersaving affect things on your end?

I actually assembled this thing from parts, including the lid. Replacing it is not an option as it is in a very good condition except for that outer layer. I just wanted to see if I can do anything to it.

Thanks for the suggestion, tho.

Good bot.

It would be nice if these scars were actually by me 😅

But yeah I get your point

Definitely an option, but I’d rather not wrap it.

Serious question: you’d use that for your daily driver?

How would Flatpak know which driver to install?

I see. That’s too bad. Thanks!

Could be things to execute. They may run a shell script (source it if they don’t have exec permission), but they won’t have all the previleged commands (definitely no dd)

I currently have a Thinkpad W530 with a Quadro K2000M. Because I have coreboot as its firmware, I am able to run completely on the discrete GPU. So far I’ve been doing great.

I’ve looked on the feature matrix of the nouveau support and my GPU (Kepler) happens to have all the features checked-off, with the exception of dynamic power management (mostly WIP).

Right now, I’m running KDE wayland with the nouveau driver with no issue.

On the other hand, I’ve tried having the hybrid GPU and it sucks.

Don’t get me started.

There are good reasons why I have personal “production system” to do my work with.

Yes, I did set the BIOS GPU config to “discrete only” and now it works.

I probably should!

Crazy, rite??

they are not… but they are on different resolution. the primary is on 1080p while the secondary is on HD+

I’m currently using LMDE on Thinkpad W530 for work. Pretty much stationary, with second monitor and all. I got a more mobile X230 with 9 cell battery (same OS) for when I need to be on the move.

That i7 on the W540 would be very useful if you want to have good compilation time for your system.

Nice Plasma desktop! Also, is that a T530?