Wake me up when it's the year of linux on a laptop again.
It depends on whether you count Chromebooks as linux or not. ARM bring-up without vendor support is non-trivial and full of hacks.
Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review
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Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review
#12I feel like he should have tried it with a newer kernel. 6.8 was released 10 days ago.
It is not available for this device from the looks of it, at least not on normal updates, perhaps an oem kernel or something.
Looks like linux-image-6.8.0-11-generic can be installed and it does install the .dtb file into /boot/dtbs so I'll reboot in a bit to test.
Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review
#13Less than six hours of battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend, non-working webcam: sounds awful.
It's 2008: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend
It's 2012: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend
It's 2016: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend
It's 2020: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend
It's 2024: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend
Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review
#14Less than six hours of battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend, non-working webcam: sounds awful.
It's even worse at it varies from distro to distro. My laptop had battery life issues and some graphical issues[1] in Ubuntu but worked fine in Pop!_OS, even being an Ubuntu based distro.
In my experience, those "for dummies" distros are the best to not have those kind of issues, like Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, or Elementary, but with so much closed source in hardware manufacturers it's normal to the community to don't be able to give a solution in a short time period.
[1]: It has dual Intel and AMD hybrid graphics, so it's understandable to some degree.
Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review
#15Less than six hours of battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend, non-working webcam: sounds awful.
It's 2008: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend It's 2012: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend It's 2016: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend It's 2020: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend It's 2024: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-workin…
Unless its vendor supported day 1, always buy an older gen laptop where other people have done the hard yards to get all the bits and pieces working correctly.
If that's too much hassle, just run WSL2 on Windows.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's 2008: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend It's 2012: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend It's 2016: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend It's 2020: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend It's 2024: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-workin…
Unless its vendor supported day 1, always buy an older gen laptop where other people have done the hard yards to get all the bits and pieces working correctly. If that's too much hassle, just run WSL2 on Windows.
I’ve been pretty careful to buy laptops that are new, but well-supported by Linux.
They all had better battery life than windows, and more reliable suspend/resume. Audio was generally fine.
(Not all those things were true out of the box, though.)
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not available for this device from the looks of it, at least not on normal updates, perhaps an oem kernel or something.
Looks like linux-image-6.8.0-11-generic can be installed and it does install the .dtb file into /boot/dtbs so I'll reboot in a bit to test.
That kernel does not boot on the system.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless its vendor supported day 1, always buy an older gen laptop where other people have done the hard yards to get all the bits and pieces working correctly. If that's too much hassle, just run WSL2 on Windows.
I’ve been pretty careful to buy laptops that are new, but well-supported by Linux. They all had better battery life than windows, and more reliable suspend/resume. Audio was generally fine. (Not all those things were true out of the box, though.)
I've just moved to WSL2 - its from Microsoft so no qualms if you want to use it on a corporate laptop, and honestly there is no GUI software I want to use on Linux that isn't available on Windows anyway.
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#19Linux Mint 21.3 on T14s is fantastic. Only minor bluetooth issues which come and go with kernel updates. Love the three-finger swipe to switch workspaces.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve been pretty careful to buy laptops that are new, but well-supported by Linux. They all had better battery life than windows, and more reliable suspend/resume. Audio was generally fine. (Not all those things were true out of the box, though.)
I've just moved to WSL2 - its from Microsoft so no qualms if you want to use it on a corporate laptop, and honestly there is no GUI software I want to use on Linux that isn't available on Windows anyway.
I'd rather deal with many of the issues the op faces than deal with Microsoft Windows in its current iteration. Fortunately, I don't have to do either.