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Linux is great. I'm with you. As someone who's been on Linux for 8 years I can say that if going with Linux be prepared to experience driver compahility issues
by princevegeta89 5y ago
Linux is great. I'm with you. As someone who's been on Linux for 8 years I can say that if going with Linux be prepared to experience driver compahility issues and random broken things although the occurrence chance is small. Be prepared to spend time to deal with them. Also be prepared to have suboptimal drivers that don't fully
Make use of your CPU and GPU and their power management functions.
In some cases you can also be prepared to not be able to find good software for the use case you'd be looking for.
Or just go on with Windows + WSL.
- er4hn 5y agoI primarily use Pop_OS (Ubuntnu derivative) on a Thinkpad X1 as my development laptop. I'm able to run a few containers and VMs, vscode, some utils, spotify (via it's electron app), bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth headphones, with no issues. Pretty much all of the hardware stuff like bluetooth and wifi was supported out of the box. I normally work next to a power outlet, but if I don't have one my typical dev setup (vscode, spotify, some bluetooth, some containers running) gives me somewhere between 3 - 6 hours, which is pretty good imo. When I was feeling cheeky I setup Steam and got some basic games running through the Proton compatibility layer. That seems to have broken my ability to do updates due to some issues with Nvidia drivers and I'll look at that at some point. Overall though, an X1 with Linux can get you really far these days. I do have Windows around to dual boot if I need to but it is much slower and burns through battery like a jet plane through fuel.