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> People buy Lenovo because many reasons, but not because of empathy... or because their friendliness to Linux. Lenovo's Linux compatibility has been a selling
by ramblenode 10y ago
> People buy Lenovo because many reasons, but not because of empathy... or because their friendliness to Linux.
Lenovo's Linux compatibility has been a selling point for Linux users from what I've gathered talking to people and reading forums (see for example [0]). It was one of the reasons I bought a Lenovo.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11503951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11503951
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoYes, I know. The T series are pretty good, however those are marginal sales. In my opinion, if those sales were important, Lenovo wouldn't be screwing over non-Windows users like they did now.
- sevensor 10y agoYup, along with the lovely trackpoint and generally high build quality, it's why I used to buy and recommend ThinkPads. But after all of their nonsense over the last year or so I'm done with Lenovo. It's going to take them a long time to win back my business. For all that, I'm not suggesting for a moment that I believe this is part of some grand conspiracy to persecute Linux users. This is just another dumb, short-sighted decision by Lenovo that results in them trying to sell semi-broken hardware.