I bought a Lenovo T4xx series laptop. I read most Lenovo laptops were Linux friendly, as I didn’t want to waste too much time on it at home. You can easily fa

I bought a Lenovo T4xx series laptop. I read most Lenovo laptops were Linux friendly, as I didn’t want to waste too much time on it at home. You can easily fall into a time sink trying to get Linux working on a laptop. And I don’t have much time or patience to mess around with such frivolous pursuits anymore. I split the hard drive to dual boot, in case I needed access to Windows. And installed Ubuntu on it. The latest release uses Gnome by default, so this was a much better window manager than their previous Unity one. So far, so good. It works mostly well. The fingerprint reader does not work. This is actually quite handy, especially when coming out of a reboot, or lockout. It works nicely on Windows, but doesn’t work on Linux. However, one great feature difference between Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows, is the ability to resume. On Ubuntu Linux, I can fold down the laptop lid, and not touch the computer for weeks, and when I reopen the lid, it resumes immediately at where I left off. Whereas, with Windows, it seems to force a reset, and I lose all my previous works, open windows, etc. So, this is a definite big win for Ubuntu Linux here. Most other things works ok on Linux. Not great, but it’s acceptable. Firefox works ok, but I found a few glitches, where I had to revert to using Chrome on Windows. Although I’m sure I could’ve downloaded Chrome for Linux to use it. I found reprogramming Linux to automate some tasks, to be much easier on Linux, as opposed to Windows. Mostly because Bash is easily scripted, and all the Bash and Gnu tools, just makes Linux easier to automate. And especially aliases, which can auto set a bunch of commonly used parameters. Overall, it’s more fun to use Linux on this laptop, than Windows. Some things about the Gnome window manager does annoy me however. Like, when I try to save a file, or open a file, then the file manager window, takes the entire screen, instead of just being a smaller modal dialog box. But, this hasn’t irritated me enough yet, to find a possible fix for it.