Lenovo Announces 27 Systems To Ship With Ubuntu Pre-Installed

[klapaucius]

I am not sure that the AMD version is hardware certified just yet, check the Lenovo linux forums. We have an ideapad in the house, and it was only with kernel 5.9 that everything worked at least adequately (the problems left over from 5.8 were related to the microphone, which affects the Thinkpad too). I think F33 will probably initially ship with 5.8.

Well, it's finally arrived. I am trying Ubuntu 20.10 now, until the release of Fedora 33.
There are some small issues. I've found that audio and microphone do not work out of the box. The microphone works. I discovered that I have to manually unload a couple of *_acp3x modules which are the mic drivers. This makes the mic stop working. Then I restart pulseaudio and the sound card is correctly detected. Then I reload those modules and the microphone also restart working without breaking the sound card.
I'm trying to figure out how to automatize this process. I've also tried to rebuild a 5.9.1 kernel, stripping the unnecessary audio drivers. Unfortunately it's been a long time since when I last compiled my customized kernel, and I've just discovered that it's not enough to package it in a .deb, it must be signed or UEFI won't load it at boot time.

[Mez']

The only reason I haven't blocked you is because by accident or design your username defeats the ignore list, so you might as well stop talking. I'm not interested in your pathetic attempts to justify white supremacy nor in your verbose rantings.

Seems like you can't read. Go back to school, please. You're a moron and a racist.

[Mez']

No valid arguments from people quickly and wrongly cataloguing others because they don't understand nuances. As usual. Trying to be condescendant instead due to shallowness of own arguments.

I don't like how the anti-racism wave try to fight against racism (ditto with feminists and all minorities) and I believe there are better ways to achieve the desired result. And I'm applying these better ways every day, while still accepting others might have different opinions and might be just as right as me. But I'm a white supremacist... How much more moronic can one get?

I find that narrow-mindedness sad rather than funny or laughable. Weirdly enough, intolerance is a common trait of feminists and anti-racists.

[Mez']

Not liking ThinkPads is one thing, but if you’re siding with white supremacists and other cavedwellers I have no time for you.

Exactly what I said.
I'm actually explaining otherwise to you and bringing some nuance to the intolerance of SJWs and yet with the lack of critical mind of people like you, I'm now "siding with white supremacists". Narrow minded one-track thinking little dictators. You got to remove those blinders.

[Mez']

Your post is horseshit from start to finish. What "All lives matter" cretins mean is that white lives are more valuable than other lives. Well you know whose lives I don't give a shit about? Racists' lives. As far as I'm concerned we should go back to treating racists the way we did during WWII: Shoot the ones you can't bomb, and hang the ones you can't shoot.

And what the hell is a "trained Marxist"? If you can't understand the meaning of words then you should stop using them. And if you can't spout anything but lies then you should shut the hell up unless and until you have something worthwhile to say. Which in fairness is very unlikely ever to happen.

Yet he's right. These SJWs trying to think in the name of people that actually don't see the matter with the same eyes (or non matter often) are to be proscribed from anything. Feminists, ecologists, loud anti-racists, pro-LGBTs, they all try to dictate what others should think. Even if you're ecology-oriented, you might think different to the narrow-minded short term ecological visions of these extremists.
Often, when you have a measured opinion, some critical mind and expose the flaws of these intolerant little dictators (of the one track-thinking), since you don't have the same extreme opinion as they have (but apply some analysis before claiming electric vehicles are ecological for example), they try to undermine you. If you're an egalitarian, you're still evil at the eyes of feminists, because what the loud and self-proclaimed feminists want is domination, not equality, the loudests just hate men, they don't want to be just their equal.
And the same goes with Black lives matter. Of course they matter, but they won't matter more because you say out loud they do by positioning yourself on some extreme level on the spectrum. And they won't matter more than any other (so yes it's horseshit - to quote you - to say Black Lives matter). You can be against racism or wanting equality for women (and men!) to some extent (taking into account physiological differences because feminists deny them unless it goes their way), and yet against these idiotic movements. I think loud anti-racists and feminists are actually making things worse, and making a difference when the goal should be there is none (except for physiological male-female ones).
Real non racists and the ones doing the most for gender equality (egalitarians) are working in the shadow, they don't proclaim themselves as such (feminists for example) and are trying to change things by ignoring the gender or racial differences plainly, mentally considering others their equal, not by being loud and amplifying the difference without any kind of nuance in their intolerant discourse.

[Mez']

I wouldn't be surprised if IdeaPads follow, but (a) what makes them so much nicer than ThinkPads, (b) why not just ignore the trackpoint if you dislike it so much and (c) why do you care what it looks like? Laptops are there to be used, not ogled over.

Would be great if Ideapads follow, they are much more in line with my expectations of both a modern laptop and personal convenience (layout).

a) no trackpoint, no prominent buttons on top of the touchpad that get in the way of typing (and select text or cut it randomly, or change the selected input position, etc... because you touched these over-prominent buttons unintentionally*), the ctrl key on the bottom left instead of the fn key (why!?), etc...
b) even deactivated, it was preventing me from striking correctly the surrounding keys
c) because it's 2020, even if I use my laptop, I don't want it to look like it's 1995-2000 (Thinkpad in my opinion look like an old brick of that period).

* I don't have that issue with any other laptop I've had (several different ones at work through the last 10 years).

[phrix]

Lenovo L14/L15 AMD version, not sure if Linux preinstalled on them will be an option, doesn't have RAM soldered.
Usually it comes with a stick of 16GB RAM, but supports up to 64 GB.

For those already wanting to buy these laptops I'll quote a phrase from article:
"These systems with Ubuntu all won't be available today but the planned rollout is to be done in phases between now and through 2021. "

[piorunz]

These laptops doesn't seem to be available in the UK. Is it US only offering? Bit a shame if it is. UK Lenovo shop only have Windows laptops available and few ChromeOS O_o

[Sonadow]

And also that it won't include the Microsoft tax. A small, but significant and handy advantage.

Actually, considering how low the Microsoft tax is to bundle an OEM license key into the laptop's UEFI firmware, I don't mind having that license included. I get a laptop that works with most Linux distributions, and a spare Windows license to keep around in case it ever is needed.

As an example, I extracted the Win10 license key from my four year old Acer laptop (scrubbed the HDD and installed Fedora on it as soon as I turned it on, without even letting it boot to the Windows OOTB experience so that it was never activated) and used it to install and activate Windows 10 on a spare desktop I use exclusively for web conferencing (because Linux stinks really bad in this regard, unfortunately). Which saved me the cost of a much more expensive retail Win10 license.

It's a win-win for me.

[Mez']

Ideapad please? Normal laptops basically.
I couldn't care less about Thinkpads and what I believe is a horrible design (aesthetically as much as physically for the touchpad, keyboard anf trackpoint).
If you would want to design a laptop for my future days of neverending torture in hell, you'd definitely come up with Thinkpads.
For my upcoming replacement laptop, I won't consider Lenovo if they don't certify Ideapads for Linux.
Now that we have some sort of choice for linux pre-installed system (and with AMD CPUs options), my money can willfully snob or boycott specific brands depending on their offer.