Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with Ubuntu Preloaded

Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by chinathrow on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:01PM (#24571295)

This is great - typing this from a X1 7th gen where on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS the internal microphone still does not show up and the 4.0 speakers sound way too crisp (after I upgraded from 19.10, might need to do a fresh installation).

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by HashingtheCode on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:46PM (#24571816)

If you want latest bleeding edge support, install Arch or one its more friendly variants such as Manjaro. They provide updates everyday.

One thing to note, as Manjaro is a rolling distro, don't be surprised to download about 400Mb per day in updates

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by wayneftw on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:54PM (#24571914)

I’ll second that! Manjaro is my longest running installation of a desktop Linux. I’ve got it on three workstations since 2018 and it’s still running perfectly.

Every other desktop distro has shit the bed after an update for me.

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by HashingtheCode on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:20AM (#24579419)

That's great to hear. I would love to run Manjaro also but i can't download 400Mb per day.

If they provided a semi-rolling release, now that would be something i'd be interested in

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by wayneftw on Thursday September 24, 2020 @06:13PM (#24584286)

They definitely don't offer 400mb of updates every single day. You also don't have to apply updates every time they offer them.

If you waited to apply updates once every 3 months you'd be fine.

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by type0 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:55PM (#24571934)

I don't understand the benefits of using Manjaro over Endeavour OS. I have not heard anything good about that Manjaro only how badly they treat contributors, maybe it's just my echo-chamber but that's the impression.

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by HashingtheCode on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:17AM (#24579399)

Endeavour OS had some turbulence recently with their devs, but in terms of pros, i don't think there is much difference, personally Manjaro seems to have more support, so if you get stuck, your chances of help may be better

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by dddw on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @06:02PM (#24572633)

Manjaro is more well known, but so are it's practises.... EndevourOS will get it's well earned moment to start shining in the light very soon I believe.

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by davrosthedalek on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:59PM (#24571968)

That's so tragic. "Might need a fresh install" used to be a windows thing.

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by chinathrow on Thursday September 24, 2020 @07:19AM (#24577459)

I agree. I fiddled with some alsa settings to get stuff going with 18.04, then 19.10 and now on 20.04 LTS (where microphone should be working), these changes break stuff.

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Re:Lenovo to Sell ThinkPad X1 and Nearly 30 Other PCs with U... by peteradio on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:07PM (#24571358)

Try updating to the latest kernel. I had major sound issues until I updated to bleeding edge.

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