Laptop running hot

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 24 Sept 2021 at 23:22, Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've used KDE since the mid 90s and I do suspect that it may be causing
> the system to over heat.

I doubt that. Version 1.0 came out at the end of 1998. :-D

I used 1.x too. I found 2.x overly cluttered and moved away. 3.x was
IMHO just ridiculous and yet that's the one that got forked as
Trinity.

4.x was horrible. 5.x is a slight improvement and I tried it for a
month or so but I couldn't handle it. It still can't do a vertical
taskbar properly, for instance.

> I tried unity a few years ago and didn't like
> it at all.

Ah well. It polarises people. It's Mac-like and I like Macs -- I'm
typing on one -- so it works for me. When on non-Ubuntu distros I use
Xfce.

> The last time that I checked there wasn't any updates available.

OK, well, it's an oldish model now so if you've done it since 2018 you're good.

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/cz/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-t-series-laptops/thinkpad-t420/downloads/ds018785

> Mine's an i5. I will check the GPU acceleration option.

No discrete GPUs on those, AFAIK. Mine's one too.

> The laptop came with 4GB of ram. I bought an extra 2GB from an eBay
> seller assuming that it was a single 4GB board, it turned out to be 2x
> 2GB units.

Ouch!

Got to be careful. I just ordered a Thinkpad USB keyboard from China
-- fingers crossed what I get is what I ordered. It was misdescribed
as Indian layout but the pics show a UK one.

If you're in the UK, try CEX for cheap RAM. www.webuy.com

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