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Proud x201 user here. Wifi works perfectly, suspend/resume, docking/undocking too. As for battery life, it was around 19W/h when I first switched to linux aft
by terminalcommand 9y ago
Proud x201 user here.
Wifi works perfectly, suspend/resume, docking/undocking too.
As for battery life, it was around 19W/h when I first switched to linux after FreeBSD. After installing tld and powertop it is stable around 10.8-12W with wifi enabled.
Maybe you might want to try a recent distro, I'm using Fedora and I really like it.
Even my 3G usb dongle worked flawlessly with zero config.
PS: I remember having a flaky wifi under Debian 8, but that was due to an old version of wifi driver. It has since long been fixed in every distro I tried -including Debian-.
PS 2: My laptop is pretty old (x201), so your mileage may vary. You might want to check out thinkwikis for further info.
- ajford 9y agoPartly, that's because the x201 is so old. It's had about 7 years to mature support. I had an x201 new, and I ran into all those problems listed above for the first two years. Hell, I had to use a USB WIFI dongle for the first year or so because the drivers hadn't stablized.
- H1Supreme 9y agoYeah, I'm so tired of hearing this come up when people are looking for Linux laptops. It's very old, and VERY ugly. Most of us want something modern that runs Linux well.