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Awesome and impressive advice, thanks a lot!
I’ve actually managed to find a used Carbon X1 Gen 6 (i5-8250U, 16GB, 512) for 310usd so I reordered that instead. I assume the course of action won’t really change in this case.
And I’m not too familiar with some of that stuff, do you mind if I ask you the following:
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Where can I see if Bios is locked?
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Best way to boot into a Linux environment with a USB? Where can I get a Linux distribution that would work seamlessly from a thumb drive?
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Is there a testing app for the microphone (it’s important for me) and the ports?
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And what’s the fastest way to see the battery health?
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How to install ‘stress’? And how can I watch “/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp”?
Appreciate the detailed response, Lemmy is truly an amazing place to be a part of, thanks to precious people such as yourself 😄