2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

Re:2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop by pixelesque on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:30AM (#46477081)

I had a Thinkpad T480s that was absolutely perfect with Linux (Mint), although very underpowered, but that was due to Intel CPU.

This year I got a T14s Gen6 AMD as a replacement, and it's essentially unusable on Debian-based distros (Ubuntu, Mint), but works fine with Fedora and with Windows.

On Ubuntu and Mint, X just locks up every 80 seconds or so, and I have to hard-reboot it (or switch ttys and restart X). Nothing in syslog, nothing in dmesg, nothing in X.org.log to show what might be going on.

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Re:2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop by pimeys on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:08AM (#46487210)

I have the T14s Gen3 AMD and everything just works with CachyOS and Fedora. In general I tend to use as recent kernel as possible with AMD. They do update their drivers a lot in every Linux version.

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