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I grew up using a nipple mouse on some of my first laptops. Loved them. But after using the MacBook trackpads, it's hard to go back to anything else. On the Li
by okdood64 3y ago
I grew up using a nipple mouse on some of my first laptops. Loved them. But after using the MacBook trackpads, it's hard to go back to anything else.
On the Linux part: Does using the Thinkpad trackpad on Linux work well? How well does it handle sleep/wake from sleep? How seamless is monitor support?
I guess what I'm saying is that, while I would like to run Linux full-time, I like having a Linux-like/Unix environment, but where everything Just Works without fiddling.
- rozenmd 3y agoThe T480 is the first computer I've run Linux on that 100% Just Worked (Pop!_OS), and I've been looking since around 2009. The trackpad even picks up gestures. Wakes up from sleep without issue. Same deal with plugging in my caldigit tb3 hub (with a monitor + keyboard and mouse plugged in). The trackpad is crap compared to a MacBook, but compared to most Windows laptops it's good (even better when you swap it out for a Thinkpad X1 glass trackpad).
- FerretFred 3y agoPlus 1 for the T480! I bought mine as an open-box new item, and upgraded it with a 2Tb NVME drive and 48Gb of memory (would have been 64Gb but it has a vPro CPU). Then a 128Gb drive in the WWAN slot and a couple of days ago, a smart card reader. The fingerprint readers works fine after a bit of software fiddling using Zorin OS. The smaller drive is Debian 12.