Hi, want to buy some used hardware to run with Linux (Gnome DE ON Mint, Debian OR ElementaryOS). Mainly Office use, transcoding, but also for casual gaming Half-life 2 and maybe some more modern games.

Are Thinkpads with integrated GPUs sufficient for that? Any nice alternatives which are sturdy and can be upgraded?

TIA!

EDIT: thank you for all the helpful input. Will check AMD options!

  • potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.idEnglish
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    4 months ago

    generally a thinkpad should be fine, but you’ll want a 1.7ghz+ cpu, aswell as a dx8.1 video card for half life 2