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Huh, I've been using Fedora on my personal T460 for a few years (now on 31) without any major breaking issues. Performs well, upgrades well, bought refurbished
by TheSpiciestDev 6y ago
Huh, I've been using Fedora on my personal T460 for a few years (now on 31) without any major breaking issues. Performs well, upgrades well, bought refurbished for ~$500 of Amazon, bought it extra RAM and an SSD, good life w/standard battery, I can't remember ever hearing the fans run medium/high, uses the standard Thinkpad docking station just fine, and more I'm sure. I'll edit my post if I remember anything worth mentioning.
A few minor issues that seem to get resolved by software updates within weeks of breaking installations:
- The touchpad goes out, so I'll use the red keyboard nub or reboot the machine.
- Sometimes can't use the touchscreen (between larger upgrades) but I don't use this often, it wasn't supposed to have one!
- Screen can flicker in GNOME when bouncing between workspaces (Windows + Page Up/Down)
Even then, these issues may just be my own machine/configuration!
Others have mentioned being wary of pre-installed Lenovo support, and I can agree. While I'd still replace their Fedora for my own install, they'd certainly help my confidence that the laptop was built to fit Linux expectations.
- lofties 6y agoI had the same issue with the touchpad going out on my Thinkpad, running Ubuntu. This would always happen after coming out hibernation so I wrote a systemd service[1] that runs a small shell script [2] after coming out of hibernation. [1] https://gist.github.com/briandeheus/bfa498000f52fbf1b581b9a0cfad0e82 https://gist.github.com/briandeheus/bfa498000f52fbf1b581b9a0... [2] https://gist.github.com/briandeheus/3c765d520680053da54b680d808e89ae https://gist.github.com/briandeheus/3c765d520680053da54b680d...
- ahnick 6y agoThanks for sharing. I've been running the same modprobe commands, but manually using a bash alias. I'm going to use your systemd script going forward.
- TheSpiciestDev 6y agoThank you!.. I'll keep your gists in-mind if I ever come across this trackpad issue again. Thinking about it, since Fedora 30 or 29, I don't actually remember encountering this problem - I know where to come back to if I do though! Thanks again!