New install on a thinkpad t540p with nvidia

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So, I got this i7 thinkpad t540p with nvidia gpu for free. Rather heavy, but really nice screen.
My daughter running Bodhi on a hp elitebook 2570 asked me if she could have the thinkpad instead, as the screen is 16" instead of 13"... hmm!

I downloaded Bodhi 5.0 and wasted 3h trying to install Bodhi on the thinkpad. I've tried all things. I got it installed using safe graphics mode and running using the nouveau driver, but it was really unstable, every third or forth boot I was forced to boot into console mode. Tried the nvidia driver but booted into a black screen.

I told her to either stay on the 13" or change over to Peppermint

10min later the thinkpad is running PM9 flawlessly
It works perfectly with both nouveau or nvidia.

So, now we have a new Peppermint user

EDIT:
Just in case...

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$ inxi -Fz
System:    Host: thinkpad-t540p Kernel: 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A Distro: Peppermint Nine
Machine:   Device: laptop System: LENOVO product: 20BE005YMS v: ThinkPad T540p serial: N/A
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 20BE005YMS v: 0B98417 WIN serial: N/A
           UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO v: GMET84WW (2.32 ) date: 04/09/2018
Battery    BAT0: charge: 73.2 Wh 78.2% condition: 93.6/99.5 Wh (94%)
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-4700MQ (-MT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3400 MHz 1: 1240 MHz 2: 1118 MHz 3: 1110 MHz 4: 1145 MHz 5: 1295 MHz 6: 1158 MHz
           7: 1129 MHz 8: 1148 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
           Card-2: NVIDIA GK208M [GeForce GT 730M]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 2880x1620@59.96hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5
Audio:     Card-1 Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-23-generic
Network:   Card-1: Intel Ethernet Connection I217-LM driver: e1000e
           IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi
           IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 60.0GB (13.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Patriot_Flare size: 60.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 55G used: 7.6G (15%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 223 Uptime: 0 min Memory: 339.1/7645.5MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56


[PCNetSpec]

Great stuff pin .. changing the world one PC at a time

[pin]

Thx!
As far as I'm concerned, I've converted 8 laptops to Peppermint
I know it's not much, but one step at the time
...and 4 of those are school kids that use Peppermint on a daily basis for school assignments. My daughter uses office365 regularly, so I bet she will be using the ICE SSB's already in place.
Now my youngest daughter will get the hp laptop, so soon, maybe we will have a 6 year old Peppermint user

Taking over the world stepwise

EDIT: Oh, by the way... she (the older one) told me she doesn't like windows

[scifidude79]

Ah yes, another convert. Excellent work. That's a really nice looking computer, too.

Personally, I never took to Bodhi. Though, a big part of that is the Enlightenment desktop. To me, it's not that enlightened.

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Thx!
As far as I'm concerned, I've converted 8 laptops to Peppermint

great news pin! Especially since you are converting the nextGen! I am still working on getting Mom's conversion from Microsloth to Peppermint... I may have to convert her newest machine though...

[PCNetSpec]

Great work pin .. when the youngsters start on Linux, the war is won .. mwuhahahaha!!!
(not that there's actually a war but you get what I mean)

[scifidude79]

Great work pin .. when the youngsters start on Linux, the war is won .. mwuhahahaha!!!
(not that there's actually a war but you get what I mean)

Well, since Microsoft used to think there was one, (the jury is still out on whether or not that's still true) one can see where that line of thinking comes from. Nowadays, they're too busy trying to battle Apple in the tablet game (good luck there) to bother with free desktop operating systems.