Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US

Post by kyawzazaw » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #41

leetrout wrote: post #4

I wonder if there is some market pressure from players like System76? For anyone coming along- I managed two Lenovo ThinkStation P7 series towers and these cases (the P5 series looks almost identical) are really great. Everything in the case is screw-less / tool-less. I can't remember how the M.2 drives mounted- they may have had a screw but it was a great case.

Speeaking of System 76: is Pop_OS easier to use than Mint? Does it support things like watching Netflix and DVDs without needing to look for packages and apps to install?

Post by jammygit » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 5:28 PM UTC

dandelo1953 wrote: post #55

paulcarroty wrote: post #53

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2890166/lenovo-to-flus... I have no trust for Lenovo after this incident.

️ Things happen. It's embarrassing to have to disclose such a thing to the public, but they did. I don't recall anything nefarious and they owned up - to at least some extent. That is more than a lot companies can say. Is that the ONLY reason why you dis Lenovo? Because if so, it makes them that much more attractive in my book of flippant remarks

Post by kbenson » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 5:38 PM UTC

loudmax wrote: post #61

ansible wrote: post #59

That's nice and all. But I'd much rather just build PCs in-house for work. It is just a serviceability issue. These systems often incorporate nonstandard power supplies, motherboards and such, making it difficult to repair and in many cases, impossible to upgrade piecemeal. Since building my most recent work PC in 2012, I have: Upgraded the memory. Added hard drives, including a couple SSDs recently. Upgraded the pow…

For a PC to use at home, I agree 100%. If you're the kind of person that's likely to upgrade RAM or components I wouldn't recommend this for personal use. This is geared toward enterprise use. Think, corporate IT department that needs to support dozens of these. They want a service contract and they'll probably replace the lot of them in five years. Having some weird proprietary components in there isn't a problem. A…

Post by cecja » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 5:41 PM UTC

jammygit wrote: post #64

dandelo1953 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

️ Things happen. It's embarrassing to have to disclose such a thing to the public, but they did. I don't recall anything nefarious and they owned up - to at least some extent. That is more than a lot companies can say. Is that the ONLY reason why you dis Lenovo? Because if so, it makes them that much more attractive in my book of flippant remarks

> Is that the ONLY reason why you dis Lenovo? They installed spyware. That is more than enough reason to lose trust. IIRC, they did it more than once too[1]. If that isn’t cause enough, what is? Would it take pre-installed ransomware to lose trust? https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html?m...

Post by washadjeffmad » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

stusmall wrote: post #24

gonzo41 wrote: post #5

This is great but I'd still just format the drives and load from an image I put onto a thumb drive. Who knows what new glassfish-esq malware they have integrated into the factory OS.

The point is if they are offering it preinstalled it means they are putting more effort and support behind making it work well on their hardware. Linux hardware support has come a long ways but there are still occasional rough patches. At this point in my life I take zero joy in trouble shooting them so official Linux support is a big deal