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So X1 Carbon works well with Linux?
by pkaye 6y ago
So X1 Carbon works well with Linux?
- pxeboot 6y agoZero issues for me. They even released a firmware update for the fingerprint scanner to add Linux support a few months ago. I have a 7th gen.
- codecamper 6y agoubuntu or fedora?
- pxeboot 6y agoI have used Ubuntu and Arch on this laptop.
- adiM 6y agoYes! After using MacBook Pro for almost a decade, I moved back to Linux for my laptop two years ago. I installed the Manjaro i3 image and I was expecting that it will take almost a week to tweak the settings so that all the hardware works and was pleasantly surprised that everything worked out of the box (everything other than fingerprint scanner but that was a known limitation).
- zwayhowder 6y agoI can second this with the addendum I'm on an X1 Yoga and the touchscreen works out of the box, it took me about 2 minutes to get the screen auto-rotating as well using this script. https://gist.github.com/mortie/e725d37a71779b18e8eaaf4f8a02bf5b https://gist.github.com/mortie/e725d37a71779b18e8eaaf4f8a02b...
- busterarm 6y ago8th Gen might not be so hot yet from what I've heard. 7th Gen minor issues. 6th and prior are flawless.
- skrtskrt 6y agoWhat have you heard about the 8th Gen? That with Manjaro would be my prime candidate to move from Macbook
- hanklazard 6y agoI’ve been using it with pop!_os for a few weeks. It’s been flawless for everyday use (including a working fingerprint reader, which I haven’t had on previous versions carbon X1s.
- dfgdghdf 6y agoI have the 7th gen. It works OK. Trackpad sucks. Resolution is high and Ubuntu does not scale things properly. Fingerprint reader doesn't work. Speakers are incredibly quiet. Suspend / hibernate does not work reliably.
- busterarm 6y ago> Resolution is high and Ubuntu does not scale things properly. The 7th gen has two different screen options. I gather you got the higher density one. I don't use Ubuntu but I have the same display and don't have scaling issues. I use Arch & OpenBSD and configure everything myself though. > Speakers are incredibly quiet. Mostly a PulseAudio issue (doesn't play well with 4 speaker configurations). Has multiple workarounds (2 speaker only and to use all 4). I got it working in an hour. Full fix coming in next major version. > Suspend / hibernate does not work reliably. Has had a fix since February
- JoshTriplett 6y agoYes, it works incredibly well. Also, Lenovo now directly supports Linux on some of their laptops, including the X1.
- ekianjo 6y agoavoid the 7th gen though.
- z3ncyberpunk 6y agoX1 C7 w/ Pop!_OS 20.04, works great with pretty much everything supported "out of the box" in the X1 short of the WWAN chip set (it also might, i have not had time or need for it enough to check recently. Last I checked WWAN drivers were spotty but getting better but that was also when i was trying Ubuntu amd Kubuntu 19.04 which had kind of janky hardware support for keyboard LEDs and audio). I didn't see any native support in the network manager but aside from that, great hardware and firmware support in OS, plug and play for audio devices can sometimes be dumb but its much better than most linux OS I've used. I was never a fan of GNOME but Pop!_OS pulls it off quite nicely.
- bluedino 6y agoI have a gen 3, while the screen could be better, it’s not bad. Trackpad of course isn’t anywhere near Mac level but the system is pretty good.