I had a grand idea, as I usually do, and decided to execute it swiftly. My wallet feels pain when my mind gets on its singular track, but there isn’t anything that can be done to steer it off.

2020 is quite possibly the year of the Linux gaming desktop. Let’s explore.

What’s an appropriate operating temperature for a CPU under load? 70C? 75C? How about 95C? That’s what Lenovo apparently thought when designing the T480s.

Everything was supposed to be perfect. It was supposed to all work. Yet, here I am with another post.

You might remember one of the things I noticed way back in my first post.

NotebookCheck reported that the Blade will drain battery even when plugged in,
and it’s definitely happened to me in eGPU mode, though I’m not sure why...

Well, that came back to bite me - hard. But first, a look back.

As a follow-up to my previous post, I thought I’d write about my experience using Arch Linux, the Blade Stealth 2019, and an eGPU docking setup as my daily driver for about three weeks now. After telling one of my friends about the hell I’d been going through, he remarked that it seemed like all the issues that I was complaining about had their roots in the hardware I’d chosen. I don’t disagree - the Blade Stealth 2019 is far from a perfect laptop - but it made me seriously have some second thoughts about my purchase. More on that later.

The idea holed up in my brain and would not let go. For whatever reason, I had to try it. Below is the result of about a week off-and-on configuring this setup and aggressively documenting everything in my personal vimwiki. Please enjoy my retelling of my introduction to the world of eGPUs on Linux.