I do not reinstall "the OS".
One charm of this ThinkPad is it works superbly with some Arch Linux on it.
One charm of this ThinkPad is it works superbly with some Arch Linux on it.
>it works superbly with some Arch Linux on it.
These 2 statements contradict each other. Either you reinstall the OS (OK maybe you didn't technically REinstall, but most people would call installing a different OS "reinstalling the OS") or you still running the default OS.
The BIOS thing was specifically targeted at Windows installations, a thing I havn't bothered with since the previous millenium.