Strategy: "use couple of years old Thinkpad". Tons of linux devs use thinkpads and a couple of years are needed for all userland / driver patches to land at you

Strategy: "use couple of years old Thinkpad". Tons of linux devs use thinkpads and a couple of years are needed for all userland / driver patches to land at your favorite distro. It worked so far for me with the x40, x230 & t470s.