One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by loxs on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:40PM (#24308488)

Currently I run the cheapest ThinkPad T495 (AMD hardware) on Arch Linux (but maxed the RAM on my own). Everything works great, except it doesn't remember the screen brightness level after a reboot, which is not a big deal at all for me - I don't reboot very often.

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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by jamesponddotco on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:25PM (#24309534)

I have a Psomething (the one with Xeon) from work and a T480 for personal stuff, but as I have been getting rid of Intel in my life, the T480 will be the first to go.

How is the T495 with kernel 5.8? How does the GPU handle day to day life, and video acceleration? And more importantly, does the T495 have soldered RAM?

The awesome thing about the T480 is how I could upgrade a bunch of things, from Wi-Fi card, to RAM, to NVMe drive, and I would not like losing that.

The new T14, unfortunately, will take forever to show up in Brazil, so the T495 seems to be the logical option.

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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by loxs on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:35AM (#24315967)

As I said, everything works, except for remembering the screen brightness level.

It has 8GB soldered and you can put additional 16GB on the second slot. For me this is good enough.

Hardware video acceleration works out-of-the box with kernel 5.8.

I am not sure if the nvme slot is soldered, but as far as I remember, it's not. It has an additional slot for a standard 2.5 inch drive which you can use to increase capacity.

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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by ywei3410 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @01:00PM (#24317513)

Here's a fix! https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/lenovo/t....

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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by loxs on Sunday August 30, 2020 @02:08AM (#24321698)

I know about this, but it's not that big of a deal to me, and I prefer to stick to the out-of-the-box experience on Arch and wait for a fix to arrive.

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