Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Post by nikau » Sat, Mar 23, 2024, 11:43 AM UTC

morsch wrote: post #20

nikau wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not sure what all these windows issues are - assuming you have windows pro or above, just disable auto update installation and win11 nagging via GPO.

Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Post by ofrzeta » Sat, Mar 23, 2024, 12:20 PM UTC

valbaca wrote: post #13

morsch wrote: post #3

Less 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…

> ... issues with ... non-working suspend

In 2020 I made it work for me with 'systemctl hybrid-sleep'. Audio worked most of the time, although sometimes I had problems with the Thinkpad plugged into an actual docking stations with additional ports.

Also Linux has issues with Bluetooth :)

Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Post by mdaniel » Sat, Mar 23, 2024, 4:29 PM UTC

2-718-281-828 wrote: post #19

Linux 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.

You may already be aware of this, but the T14s is "just another" Intel box, whereas the X13s is Snapdragon/arm64. I despise the random nomenclature of their product lines for that very reason. But IMHO a blog post about Ubuntu on more Intel stuff would not make the front page versus "here's the current state of arm64 on the desktop" is something I have keen interest in. I still have high hopes someone is going to have better luck with Microsoft's Dev Kit since it comes with a lot more ram (recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35757277 et al https://hn.algolia.com/?query=windows%20dev%20kit )

Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Sat, Mar 23, 2024, 4:59 PM UTC

valbaca wrote: post #13

morsch wrote: post #3

Less 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…

(On unsupported hardware; on supported hardware everything just works and has done since at least 08)

Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Post by PennRobotics » Sat, Mar 23, 2024, 5:54 PM UTC

vondur wrote: post #6

I feel like he should have tried it with a newer kernel. 6.8 was released 10 days ago.

I had suspend problems until 6.8.0. Now I have 100% CPU usage by bwrap and still occasionally green glitches on the screen. Not impressed with my thinkpad...

Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Post by fragmede » Sat, Mar 23, 2024, 8:57 PM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #24

valbaca wrote: post #13

Earlier 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…

(On unsupported hardware; on supported hardware everything just works and has done since at least 08)

yeah. Older generation Thinkpads had better suspend than mac's did, back in like 2015 with the butterfly keyboard issues