Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux

Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by linuxhansl on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:01PM (#23404926)

> If you want to buy a Linux laptop, avoid Lenovo like the plague. They have absolutely zero quality assurance for Linux.

I had the exact opposite experience. Perhaps it's a Unbuntu thing, hard to know, I use Fedora, or perhaps it's the Yoga...

In 2004 I got a T42, installed Fedora on it, it just worked.

In 2013 I got a T440p, installed Fedora, just worked. That Laptop is still in use, btw.

This year I got a X1 Extreme Gen2 (stupid name), installed the Fedora KDE spin, just works.

Sleep, etc, works, battery is life is really, the graphics card (internal and dedicated with the Nvidia drivers) work, etc, etc. So I am truly surprised by your experience.

I did a lot of research before, and these are the best Linux laptops that I could find (besides the "open" laptops like System76, etc).

The again, I am an engineer, so perhaps what I do in terms of setup comes easy to me without me noticing the complexity.

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Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by pbrb on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:01PM (#23407297)

I'm with you. I have a 2017 X1 Carbon, and I've had zero issues with Ubuntu. The only thing I had to do was update a few config settings to properly sleep, and I run kde desktop so I don't have to fiddle with scaling on laptop monitor vs. my external displays. It's been an excellent laptop.

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Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by yolomcsuperswag on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:40PM (#23407059)

"X1 Extreme Gen2 (...) just works"

Literally? I can't even beat the installer because of the GPU. (Vanilla Fedora)

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Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by linuxhansl on Friday June 05, 2020 @11:37PM (#23436612)

Huh?

I really did not do anything special (after it was installed I installed the NVidia drivers from RPMFusion, but that was after the base install was done).

Perhaps you need to enable hybrid graphics in the BIOS.

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Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by yolomcsuperswag on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:51PM (#23471845)

I've tried both with and without :/ Oh, well.

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Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by thefunnyman on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:50AM (#23412535)

Does your microphone work? I generally love Thinkpads and have continued to buy them but even running Ubuntu 20.04 I still cannot use my fingerprint reader or microphone on my X1 Yoga and the pen doesn’t show up in Wacom settings at all so I can’t customize the buttons.

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Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by linuxhansl on Friday June 05, 2020 @11:34PM (#23436602)

Yep. Microphone works (in the T42, T440p, and X1E gen2).

I never tried the fingerprint reader, so I do not know whether that works or not.

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Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by discourses on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:25AM (#23413666)

I had some issues with Ubuntu too. Fedora 32 -- zero issues.

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