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I think you underestimate the Thinkpad commitment to Linux, and the effect the community has. I'd like to know officially, but since they target workstations th
by davidy123 4y ago
I think you underestimate the Thinkpad commitment to Linux, and the effect the community has. I'd like to know officially, but since they target workstations there are probably a low but countable % of users that run Linux. They officially support it for many models, and sell a few models with it installed. Their people are passionate about it, give presentations etc. I've never experienced the hardware switcharoo for low level hardware like wifi chip, they do that for storage and display panels, but that doesn't matter for Linux compatibility.
- ghaff 4y agoFor example, where I work (Red Hat), Thinkpads are the standard laptop for Linux. (Not sure what % overall run Linux but it's a very non-trivial number.)
- csdvrx 4y agoBy any chance, would you have some arch users? I'm preparing a custom archiso and I'd love some testers with easy access to different configurations
- ghaff 4y agoI doubt there are many. People who are actually developing for RHEL locally obviously run RHEL. Most everyone else running Linux runs Fedora, whether self-supported or, now, company-supported--or CentOS Stream.
- csdvrx 4y agoNevermind then! I thought given the large volume there could be a few.
- trelane 4y ago"No updates unless you use Windows" and broken hardware don't sound like "commitment to Linux"
- davidy123 4y agoNot sure what you mean. Firmware updates are supported by fwupd.
- trelane 4y agoThen why did they have to keep Windows on to apply all the firmware updates?
- stonogo 4y agoBecause they don't know about fwupd? Why are you not asking them instead of a Hacker News comment?
- trelane 4y agoBecause you claimed something that contradicts the article. Do you have a source for what firmware updates can be applied on this model with fwipd?
- skrtskrt 4y agoI own this model and update it with fwupdmgr all the time
- stonogo 4y agoYes, the source is LVFS, which is where fwupd pulls packages. Here's an example of a system firmware package for that machine: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/com.lenovo.ThinkPadN3ATR.firmware https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/com.lenovo.ThinkPadN3ATR.firm... There are other devices within the machine which also receive firmware updates, like the NVME drive and the Thunderbolt controller and so forth. It is absolutely trivial to find this information, to the point if you're running any fully-functional GNOME or KDE deployment the software update tools (GNOME Software, KDE Discover) will in fact prompt you to update when something is available.