Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 09:13:39AM -0400, Mark Pearson wrote:
> On 6/5/2020 5:03 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > I also use a Thinkpad (X240) with Debian unstable, it mostly work except
> > for some issues with touchpad and suspend (touchpad stops working after
> > resuming from suspend, but I work around it using an external mouse).
> >
> OK - I'll see if I can find out about that. We previously had a similar
> issue on the X1C7 and that was fixed by a touchpad firmware update. I don't
> have a X240 myself but I'll see what I can find.
Generally, the [TX][245]40 series was not a very good machine regarding
Linux, like the older T61[p] line. Things have become a lot better again
since then, my X260 works like a charm, the T450 and T460 I had from my
last customers were ok as well.
Generally, T- and X-Thinkpads are a very good choice for Linux, very
popular and widely recommended inside the Community.
While we're asking for rainbow colored unicorns here, I'd love the
Lenovo support organiation to be a little less bitchy when one admits
using Linux, at least for clear hardware faults like broken mouse
buttons etc¹, and can I please have the old keyboard style back as an
option? And please keep in mind that Linux nerds enjoy tinkering around
with their older hardware, so it would be great to have disk slots that
conform to the standard and memory that is not soldered in. I have been
holding back buying a new Thinkpad for a while because I hate to lose
the flexibility that the older series used to have, and I have bought my
last three Thinkpads without a support package because Lenovo won't help
me anyway because I happen to use the wrong OS.
Greetings
Marc, writing this on the X260, with three T520 and one X121e in daily use
¹ it really sucks to be required to have a disk with a never-used
Windows installation sitting on the shelf just to make the support tech
happy
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