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Re:Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-foc... by creshal on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:44AM (#10743276)
> The brightness buttons work! The audio volume buttons work! Suspend and resume works! Everything works!

I can't remember when I last had a Thinkpad where any of that didn't work out of the box with Linux.

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Re:Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-foc... by david-given on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:01AM (#10744619)
I have to admit that I've never used a Thinkpad. I know they have excellent Linux support (lots of people where I work use them because of this).

But on every single other laptop I have ever used Linux on, there has always been something that hasn't worked properly, whether it's audio not waking up properly after a suspend, or occasionally suspend not actually working and I discover a red hot laptop in my bag spinning at 100% CPU, or some such issue.

Having a machine which I don't have to fiddle with to make work is a totally new experience for me.

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