Nice! I’ve had my eye on these for a bit.

Any packages breaking? Faulty applications? Limited functionality?

Have you tested battery life on Linux?

What kind of general media? X61 is still pretty capable at browsing and video if you have the right dependencies/drivers/etc. installed and you stick to lighter software methods.

I’ve stayed on Endeavour with XFCE for a good while now. It just works and is out of my hair. I use it on any system I want Linux on now and I’ve stopped hopping.

I’m in the same boat. I use tiling more when it has virtually zero visible edge and I just get more overall window space. That’s literally all I want tiling for most of the time on any machine. I’m completely content with that.

Try the pinhole reset, which is the same principle as this