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your problem here is not linux, your problem is probably ubuntu and lenovo. ubuntu is notoriously buggy and lenovo thinkpads are more and more hostile to linux
by bigbugbag 8y ago
your problem here is not linux, your problem is probably ubuntu and lenovo.
ubuntu is notoriously buggy and lenovo thinkpads are more and more hostile to linux since 5-6 years.
Try something like manjaro instead of ubuntu and see if you still experience the same issues.
- city41 8y agoThat's totally fair. It's on my todo list to try some other distros. I will probably try Debian first. I chose Ubuntu due to it being so popular and also because my company's IT supports it. But if other distros are more reliable then that's fantastic.
- tlavoie 8y agoMint on my Lenovo P51 has been brilliant. There were basically zero issues to get everything working like sound, sleep/resume and network (common sticky spots). Being a ThinkPad, there were also some utilities to do more specific things like power management to only charge to 80%; mine's usually plugged in, this is supposed to help battery life. I can still dual-boot to the Win10 it came with, but it's been a month or two between typically.
- vetinari 8y agoThinkpads are not really problem. Yes, Lenovo occasionally does something with ACPI in their brand new models, that breaks Linux, but overall they are fine. Of course, it is possible to configure them in such a way, that will be problematic; for example, if you put Nvidia GPU in your config. It's Ideapads that have often the problems.
- int_19h 8y agoWhich brand is more Linux-friendly than Lenovo these days?