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Didn't Lenovo used to get Thinkpads certified by Ubuntu and RH ? Did they give up on it ? That only leaves Dell as the other main vendor (not counting smaller niche players) that still gives a shit. Edit: Looks like they still do, just that certification doesn't mean shit. This is more RH and Canonical's fault than Lenovo's. What's the point of certifying something if you can add a note (as Canonical did) that suspen…
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Any problems with the 6th despite the sleep mode? Do you have the higher resolution version?
I do (unfortunately) have the HiDPI model. I personally don't care at all about more pixels on this machine, but I understand why people want this. HiDPI is kinda a mess in general on Linux, from my limited use cases. I run X11 with i3wm on Arch, and the application support is all over the place. `xrandr` seems unhappy with multiple monitors at different resolutions (as is my case at work, with external displays), it…
I got used to it by now, as I don't normally work on the internal monitor for longer times. Nevertheless this really bugs me out.
I bought the X1 6th gen, but ended up returning it for a refund due to poor Linux support. There is no excuse for breaking S3 suspend.
Did you find anything besides S3 that didn't work? I have the 6th gen X1 and once I patched in ACPI my ubuntu install has worked perfectly.
This is short on details. So here are some more: since S0 ( active suspend) became more popular with windows 10, most manufacturers have decided to REMOVE THE CODE from the bios that allows S3 (suspend to ram). Worst case is they left the stubs pretending S3 is supported, so the computer goes to sleep - but never wakes up! Dell, I'm looking at you!! Workarounds come from redoing the S3 code, mostly in ACPI tables wit…
It's worrying how obscure and poor standards compliance modern hardware is starting to display. And we're talking about PCs. Let's not even discuss mobiles. In 2012 I bought a MacBook Air to run Linux. It's a great silent machine with all Intel hardware, except the pretty poor quality Broadcom wireless card. It boots with any vanilla kernel, and everything just works. Except for poor wireless range. What machine can…
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Dell XPS 13. Comes with Linux and the new model is very quiet (fans don't even spin with most tasks).
Seconded. I have a 9360 and I've had everything work out of the box with Ubuntu 17.04, 17.10,and 18.04. As well as Linux Mint 18.3. Only downsides are Linux's generally patchy support for hidpi, some programs scale and others don't (opt for 1080p version or set resolution to 1080p). And also the placement of the webcam is a bit strange. Battery life is good in Ubuntu, between 6 and 10 hours depending on use case.
To be crystal clear: the 9360 has a bios featuring the proper ACPI tables, which are omitted on purpose from other cheaper models, breaking S3 on purpose.
This is why injecting proper tables as proposed in this link restores normal functionality. It is not rocket science, just hard enough to do without proper documentation to be a waste of time.
The initial submission title said it was a shame, and I agree it is shameful to intentionally break features to charge higher price (and no, I won't buy that S0 works perfectly now, or that adding a simple if/else is "too complicated"
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Taking one example... UEFI is supposed to replace BIOS, but that spec is a mess, and nobody gets it right. I don't have a solution to this problem to propose, other than to say, if you're in the position to influence specs that effect the design of hardware, or are the result of hardware design, please push for the simplest solution to the problem every chance you get . That said, huge amounts of complexity are added…
Is it a mess? The UEFI spec is big, but most of it is not necessary to boot. The UEFI implementation in U-Boot is tiny , and yet is enough to boot (both from local storage and network) and have a text console. Most non-embedded board vendors do not reimplement UEFI. There's not much to get right or wrong. They just take AMI or whoever's private fork of TianoCore, tweak some settings and customize the GUI. (It is poss…
I can't believe anyone would be thankful about ACPI. Is there a machine with ACPI that isn't broken in some way? My brand new Lenovo, which multiple sites have crowned the "best" PC laptop, ships with a LTE card that can't properly power down, and causes PCI-E ASPM to be disabled. Even Microsoft has f--ked up power management repeatedly in the Surface line.
Power management on PCs is such a disaster that it calls into question the very idea of doing power management for computers built out of mix-and-match components through standards like ACPI.
It's probably because Lenovo's suspend feature relies on an unsigned binary blob from China sideloaded during system boot over an unsecure HTTP connection. Why anyone still trusts Lenovo enough for this sort of thing to come up as an issue is beyond me.
Citation on that? Never heard that before, and I own two ThinkPads (including a four-month-old T480).
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2969365/security/lenovos-ser...
It says the Thinkpad lines were never affected by this
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Get a T or a W, they are fine, old-school corporate machines. Carbon is the new, fashionable, Macbook-like device with soldered-on RAM, etc; likely from a different design culture. Its biggest upside is likely the hi-res screen.
There are high-res models in the T-series. I.e., available in both 1080p and 1440p, the latter just at the point where you can use it without High-DPI tech if you have normal 20/20 vision, if you have worse, you want less resolution (as you can't use the higher resolution anyway).
For development, a lot depends on the quality of font antialiasing and hinting, though; Linux used to provide superb font rendering in this regard.
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that link says nothing about > Lenovo's suspend feature relies on an unsigned binary blob from China sideloaded during system boot over an unsecure HTTP connection it talks about Lenovo Service Engine, Superfish, Lenovo Solution Center, and Lenovo Customer Feedback. if you blow away the default install of windows, including the UEFI partition, and install (windows or linux or whatever) from scratch, how could any of…
Lenovo Service Engine was BIOS-level bloatware loading garbage into clean installs of Windows over HTTP. Lenovo's drivers were so bad that they couldn't get Microsoft WHQL certification, so their BIOS was sideloading them in a very unsecure manner.
Of course, malicious firmware doesn't really depend on the OS's cooperation. It would just be harder to implement and the result a lot more flaky.