I got a pic on my phone I will post but wow, so far so good! Thinkpad powa!
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It is possible to install Coreboot Linux as the bios on the t480s. Requires an external chip flasher tool and could brick your pc if you do it wrong.
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/t480.html
Do not tell someone who barely had the money for this used laptop to just pay for a highly specialized tool that can potentially destroy their investment. Especially someone who wasn't technical enough to troubleshoot Windows stop codes. And someone who isn't even comfortable using linux.
That said OP should absolutely run some sort of debloater as Win11 is going to be slow as hell on something like that (or anything really). O&O shut-up or Win10privacy (don't check any red coded stuff but all green items).
You want me to assume that other people are incapable of doing cool technical things? I was able to install Libreboot on a ThinkPad. I don't know what other people are capable of doing.
You don’t know what other people are capable of doing so you recommend procedures that can easily brick the entire laptop?
What even is this user’s use case for doing this? You didn’t think maybe an easy Linux distro would be a better first step?
The use-case of Libreboot is that it replaces the mysterious computer bios with software that is completely FOSS. It is highly suspected that every computer made after 2008 has government backdoors built into the hardware.
Libreboot is not a Linux distro, it is a bios replacement.
What are the benefits of using Libreboot?
Hexbear users love to talk about tech literacy, then why can't Hexbears see the use case for a FOSS bios replacement? I didn't think there would be a need to explain it.
Why does everyone expect me to have known the tech competency level of a specific Hexbear poster? I'm not parasocial like that.
Why mention it on this specific post? the t480s is one of the few computers that is compatible with Libreboot.
Fair. I've just been following this saga for a while. Sorry if I came off as harsh.