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Re:Lenovo Selling Linux Laptops Directly in the US by hypothesis on Sunday August 15, 2021 @12:58AM (#28186376)
I think that pre-installed Linux also means that company is going to provide some customer support, be it BIOS fixes or maybe addressing a driver issue after an OS update.

Without such support it was common to simply get “an unsupported OS” reply, which will necessarily limit how popular product is with non-tech people.

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Re:Lenovo Selling Linux Laptops Directly in the US by petepete on Sunday August 15, 2021 @02:25AM (#28186638)
Yep. I've had my X1 Carbon for eighteen months and keep receiving firmware updates via lvfs. Every piece of hardware, fingerprint reader included, works flawlessly out of the box with Fedora.
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Re:Lenovo Selling Linux Laptops Directly in the US by peakaboo on Sunday August 15, 2021 @02:58AM (#28186762)
Using several x1 carbons and also a T14s under Arch Linux and no problems at all. It's a great machine. Bios updates can be had also, just like you said.
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Re:Lenovo Selling Linux Laptops Directly in the US by thefunnyman on Monday August 16, 2021 @01:28PM (#28200615)
I have an X1 yoga and have had a similar experience. Everything from touchscreen and pen to the fingerprint reader works well on Ubuntu.
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