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Re:Linux 5.19 by Loic on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:49AM (#32304677)
I suppose it depends on your Lenovo series.

I have been using exclusively T and X laptop for the past 20+ years and it always worked perfectly. There was a time where the battery life was better with Windows, but maybe only 2 or 3 years "in-between". Nowadays, the hardware support is for me a non issue.

Re:Linux 5.19 by danieldk on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:45AM (#32305171)
I had a T14 AMD for 8 months or so last years and it was death by a thousand paper cuts. Wake from (S3) sleep would not work well, e.g. the trackpad/point would often not come back up. Sometimes the GPU wouldn't wake properly. The fingerprint reader rarely worked. Bluetooth was very flaky. Battery life was much worse than Windows. I had a Lenovo USB-C dock. However, Linux configured the lanes wrong, making it impossible to use 4k@60Hz through the dock (worked fine on Windows).
Re:Linux 5.19 by jcelerier on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:55AM (#32305978)
> Wake from (S3) sleep would not work well, e.g. the trackpad/point would often not come back up. Sometimes the GPU wouldn't wake properly. The fingerprint reader rarely worked. Bluetooth was very flaky.

except the fingerprint one because I don't have a fingerprint reader, I had all these issues on my windows laptop

Re:Linux 5.19 by melesian on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:04AM (#32304799)
My experience, also using T and X series laptops matches yours. Some issues with resuming from sleep a long time ago and with firmware on a docking station once but otherwise only one gripe: I've never been entirely happy with the fan control. I found in the end with my T440s that leaving it to the OS worked well enough. Previously, with older X series machines, I had to both try to optimize and also ended up replacing fans.