In the last few years Chinese manufacturing has reached a very high-level. The reason most people still believe that Chinese-made stuff is poor quality is because they will do what they are told and they are usually told “make this as cheap as possible” by whoever is paying the bills.
While I reckon some other countries still have specialist manufacturing in key areas that surpasses China, most “common” parts can be made in China to a standard that meets or exceeds Western countries, if you’re willing to pay for it.
My wife has an old-ish Lenovo T14s which I’m debating stealing to play with Linux on. Last time I ran Linux as a desktop OS was Gentoo on a Sony Vaio about 15 years ago and, while the experience was good, the weekends spent building software from source were not!!!
I’ve been a Mac user for about 10 years now, but been doing Unix/Linux sysadmin since the late 90s. Hopefully I can pick it up again! What are people using for a distro nowadays? Any recommendations that work well with Thinkpads?
While I reckon some other countries still have specialist manufacturing in key areas that surpasses China, most “common” parts can be made in China to a standard that meets or exceeds Western countries, if you’re willing to pay for it.