And honestly, I am still daily driving that x220 with NetBSD and a T480 with OpenBSD and they do everything I need. Also running a Panasonic SV7 with OpenBSD.
All of them definitely not current gen beasts but if I can't make my shit run there, then what the hell am I even doing?
Definitely. I have openBSD on my X201 and use it pretty regularly. That being said, I'm not sure I'd want to edit photos on it, so I have a newer machine for that (a used lenovo "micropc").