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I believe Thinkpads are famously easy to make work with Linux. I had one in college (a decade ago) and an x1 carbon when I was at Google (several years ago) and
by wutbrodo 8y ago
I believe Thinkpads are famously easy to make work with Linux. I had one in college (a decade ago) and an x1 carbon when I was at Google (several years ago) and both of them were excellent (though the latter obviously would've had any kinks ironed out by the Goobuntu team).
My last couple laptops had better hardware (for my needs) than ThinkPads or Macbooks, but the occasional compatibility issue is enough that I'm thinking about switching back to Thinkpads.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoRedHat people famously also use lots of ThinkPads.
- ajdlinux 8y agoI run Debian on my work-issued X1 Carbon and it works well enough that my next personal laptop is probably going to be an X1.
- namibj 8y agoConsider it's brothers, the 3-digit X and T models, which, especially in form of premature leasing returns, have excellent price for the value. And due to the stagnation with CPU power, all from Haswell should be well within usable.
- lmm 8y agoThe old, IBM-made Thinkpads were. AIUI it's not really so true of the modern Lenovo ones.
- wutbrodo 8y agoAll the ones I've had (and all the references I've read about their compatibility) have been during the Lenovo period, I believe.