Year of the Linux Desktop

Since 2005-ish every single of my PCs always had Linux installed. When I bought a “ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 (Intel)” Laptop in 2022, I really wanted to use two 4K screens with a Thunderbolt Dock, but unfortunately it didn’t worked neither on Debian nor on Manjaro/Arch Linux. After erroring around for a few days, I just decided to install Windows 10 and try it again later. This later is now, four years later. And everything works! 🎉 Well, almost. For personal preference, I chose to use Debian 13 (Trixie) with KDE Plasma. I am certain, that the out-of-the-box experience would be better in Linux Mint for example. tl;dr: Ansible code can be found on my codeberg. Anyway, the installer missed some non-free driver packages, so I had to install the following packages: firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-iwlwifi firmware-intel-sound firmware-sof-signed Note: I don’t use the Nvidia GPU! After a quick reboot Sound, Wifi and Graphics worked correctly. Before that, I had for example the following error…