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What components? Lenovo sells several ThinkPad models with Linux out of the box. The fingerprint reader is a source of trouble but it's not a Lenovo part.
by goosedragons 4y ago
What components? Lenovo sells several ThinkPad models with Linux out of the box. The fingerprint reader is a source of trouble but it's not a Lenovo part.
- Mike_12345 4y agoBattery, BIOS, touchpad, power management, touch screen, fingerprint scanner, Nvidia GPU, etc. Believe it or not, they sell hardware with Linux OOTB thanks to others reverse engineering their proprietary subsystems.
- sliken 4y agoOver the years I've seen numerous thinkpad tweaks for wifi, sleeping with the lid closed, restarting wifi on lid open, numerous tweaks for the function keys (audio up/down/mute, brightness up/down), clock speed/thermal management, reading battery levels, etc. Seems like the #1 reason thinkpads are well supported is that they are relatively popular among the people who modify the OS and kernel for compatibility. I don't recall that Lenovo is a particularly big contributor to the linux kernel.