Re:Best laptop for linux (probably Ubuntu)?
by b3b0p on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:45PM
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I'd like to know experiences using a newer model Thinkpad T460S or T460P with discrete graphics experiences using any distribution of Linux. Does sleep, suspend, hibernate work well? Dual display? The retina (? pixel scaling?) work well? What doesn't work?
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I have a t450s running Ubuntu and it's awesome. Plan on buying a 16GB DIMM, obviously. I wish they'd add more slots for RAM. Also, get the option where you can cram 3 SSDs into it. Then you can swap to "slow RAM" if you blow out the 20GB. Just a little 20-40GB slice of an SSD but it can save you a lot of hassle if you start to thrash while running simulations or merging huge tables or the like.
Re:Best laptop for linux (probably Ubuntu)?
by marcuniq on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:42AM
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I have a T440p and dual boot Win10 and Ubuntu. Everything works out of the box, except the Nvidia GPU. Switching between Intel and Nvidia is possible, but for some unknown reasons I can't boot with Nvidia activated. Configuring the Xserver was not straight forward for my use cases (dock with 1 monitor/laptop only).