oldcpu's meandering thoughts on Computers, GNU/Linux and openSUSE

I recently purchased a Lenovo X1 Carbon 9^th generation, with an Intel Core-i7-1165G7, 16GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and a 1920x1200 non-touch display, where I successfully installed openSUSE LEAP-15.3 on this machine.

My plan is that this will be a long blog entry, with multiple posts over a period of time as I gradually update software associated with this laptop. If I have issues I will post for 'help' elsewhere in this forum.

INTRODUCTION:

This laptop replaces ...