Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
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Re: Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
#2This is great news. Honestly I've never had a problem with Ubuntu on machines that are just a 1-year or older. There are so many i7 laptops in the secondary market that work perfectly.
Re: Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
#3Fantastic news! I hope a lot of other manufacturers will follow!
Re: Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
#4This is great news. Honestly I've never had a problem with Ubuntu on machines that are just a 1-year or older. There are so many i7 laptops in the secondary market that work perfectly.
Graphics drivers and WiFi drivers never worked without significant pampering for me in Ubuntu, and I've been using Linux for 15 years. Just last week I updated my working Nvidia drivers for my RTX 2070 card via Ubuntus GUI and lo and behold after restart the screen is just black. It's at a point where I just want it to get a working system and never update it, security and performance be damned.
I know how to fix it because this has happened with pretty much all graphic cards I've had, I'll have to go into and mess with the grub config, make it run in safe mode, restart, try another grub config, restart, find out it doesn't work, run safe mode and reinstall the old drivers, cross my finger and wonder where my Saturday went.
Gentoo was the most reliant by a long shot (maybe for the simple reason it always asked if it should replace my config), but that is a time sink in whole other league.
Have heard good things about Fedora lately, but I dread throwing away the Debian knowledge I amassed.
Re: Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
#5Is Nvidia Optimus going to work or will it still require a dirty hack?
Will you have to choose between decent battery life and the ability to use an external monitor?
I bought an X1 Extreme and even with Pop!_OS it is incredibly annoying.
Re: Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
#6This is great news. Honestly I've never had a problem with Ubuntu on machines that are just a 1-year or older. There are so many i7 laptops in the secondary market that work perfectly.
Graphics drivers and WiFi drivers never worked without significant pampering for me in Ubuntu, and I've been using Linux for 15 years. Just last week I updated my working Nvidia drivers for my RTX 2070 card via Ubuntus GUI and lo and behold after restart the screen is just black. It's at a point where I just want it to get a working system and never update it, security and performance be damned. I know how to fix it…
I guess it’s all about choice of hardware now. If you use components designed to support Linux life will be pretty smooth. I’m sure someone will point out the nvidia has a reputation for being linux hostile which does limit your choice a bit.
Currently running Fedora on an XPS13 Dev edition laptop.
Wayland, Gnome and Firefox are working together very nicely.
Mixed HiDPI with standard seems to be solved now. I’ve seen the odd glitch where an app gets confused as you move from one screen to another but overall very good.
Trackpad latency is improving but still not quite perfect. The fact that it’s close and constantly improving though makes me very positive about using Linux in place of my MBP full time.
I actually miss the Gnome window management shortcuts when I move back to my Mac.
Re: Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
#7This is great news. Honestly I've never had a problem with Ubuntu on machines that are just a 1-year or older. There are so many i7 laptops in the secondary market that work perfectly.
Graphics drivers and WiFi drivers never worked without significant pampering for me in Ubuntu, and I've been using Linux for 15 years. Just last week I updated my working Nvidia drivers for my RTX 2070 card via Ubuntus GUI and lo and behold after restart the screen is just black. It's at a point where I just want it to get a working system and never update it, security and performance be damned. I know how to fix it…
Nowadays systemd distros like Fedora and Debian are quite similar.
Re: Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
#8This is great news. Honestly I've never had a problem with Ubuntu on machines that are just a 1-year or older. There are so many i7 laptops in the secondary market that work perfectly.
Graphics drivers and WiFi drivers never worked without significant pampering for me in Ubuntu, and I've been using Linux for 15 years. Just last week I updated my working Nvidia drivers for my RTX 2070 card via Ubuntus GUI and lo and behold after restart the screen is just black. It's at a point where I just want it to get a working system and never update it, security and performance be damned. I know how to fix it…
> Graphics drivers and WiFi drivers never worked without significant pampering
> my RTX 2070
I still do not understand, why you folks with Nvidia hardware expect it to work out of the box in Linux, when there have been two decades of experience that Nvidia doesn't care about that and won't allow anyone to do anything with that.
So no, your RTX won't work as nice OOTB as Intel and AMD GPUs do. It will continue to be the case while you continue to give them money for them ignoring you.
Re: Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
#9This is great news. Honestly I've never had a problem with Ubuntu on machines that are just a 1-year or older. There are so many i7 laptops in the secondary market that work perfectly.
Graphics drivers and WiFi drivers never worked without significant pampering for me in Ubuntu, and I've been using Linux for 15 years. Just last week I updated my working Nvidia drivers for my RTX 2070 card via Ubuntus GUI and lo and behold after restart the screen is just black. It's at a point where I just want it to get a working system and never update it, security and performance be damned. I know how to fix it…
Ubuntu has been plug and play for me the last 4-5 years.
It even supports devices no longer working on Macs and windows without any user interaction.
Of course, high-end nvidia boards seem to have all kind of problem. Stay away from Nvidia if you are a Linux user.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Graphics drivers and WiFi drivers never worked without significant pampering for me in Ubuntu, and I've been using Linux for 15 years. Just last week I updated my working Nvidia drivers for my RTX 2070 card via Ubuntus GUI and lo and behold after restart the screen is just black. It's at a point where I just want it to get a working system and never update it, security and performance be damned. I know how to fix it…
I guess it’s all about choice of hardware now. If you use components designed to support Linux life will be pretty smooth. I’m sure someone will point out the nvidia has a reputation for being linux hostile which does limit your choice a bit. Currently running Fedora on an XPS13 Dev edition laptop. Wayland, Gnome and Firefox are working together very nicely. Mixed HiDPI with standard seems to be solved now. I’ve seen…
Has Wayland figured out how to allow users to take screenshots? I would like to switch to Linux/Wayland from my mac but I need to share screenshots with co-workers.