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Originally posted by skeevy420 View PostI dislike stupid people technology.
Q: How hard of a concept is "hot, don't touch"?
A: Apparently, very hard. We have this.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View PostI dislike stupid people technology.
Q: How hard of a concept is "hot, don't touch"?
A: Apparently, very hard. We have this.
If it's merely uncomfortably warm, that's another thing.
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The absolute worst is putting a laptop on a blanket in bed. Damn thing can't breathe and just chokes and screams quitely while it is cooked alive.
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Originally posted by intelfx View PostLenovo started caring about Linux? The hell's apparently freezing over.
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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostThinkpads are the laptop of choice of a lot of developers, given the overall good support of those machines on Linux.
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Originally posted by slayerizer>> These settings are used for determining between on-desk and on-lap behavior for trying to ensure that the laptop doesn't become too warm should it be on your laptop.
I'm sure this would trigger a recursive loop!
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Originally posted by M@GOid View Post
Actually, they sell some models with Linux, Ubuntu I believe. Also Thinkpads are the laptop of choice of a lot of developers, given the overall good support of those machines on Linux.
Also do you remember how much time did it take them to fix S3 (suspend to RAM) support on Skylake+ models? I'm not sure if Lenovo fixed S3 earlier than Linux learned S0i3.
Linux support in ThinkPads is a strictly second-class citizen. Selling stuff with preinstalled Ubuntu is nothing but a cheap PR move, prove me wrong.Last edited by intelfx; 28 September 2019, 11:59 PM.
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Originally posted by M@GOid View Post
Actually, they sell some models with Linux, Ubuntu I believe. Also Thinkpads are the laptop of choice of a lot of developers, given the overall good support of those machines on Linux.
Originally posted by coder View PostYeah, I was surprised how everything "just worked", on mine. No issues with wifi, special keyboard buttons, laptop lid, docking station (and its NIC), audio, external displays, or anything like that. Shit just worked.
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Originally posted by azdaha View PostI guess you're not taking into account the addition of nvidia optimus to thinkpads, or the laptop battery drain, or the thermal throttling (I'm guessing this is what they're finally trying to somehow resolve). A lot of issues have since been resolved. I'm just not sure that Lenovo deserves any more or less credit than most other PC makers.
So, I related all of the things that surprised me, when I got it. It was vastly better than my previous Linux laptop experience. I'm not denying any of your points, but I still feel my experience has been a good one. Aside from wrestling with UEFI booting - that was a nightmare, but I suspect my issues were more to do with openSUSE and Ubuntu's support for it, and not Lenovo-specific.
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