I use t series thinkpads for my business running Linux, and have for the last 10 years. I upgrade every 3 years. I’ve never had any piece of hardware in any t series thinkpad not work with stock kernels from Debian and Ubuntu.
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
System76 manages their own distro. I would start with them.
Lenovo and others have Linux-targeted models. I would look at those. That’s not to say all think pads work well with linix, just the ones that are aimed at Linux support.
havocpants@lemm.ee 4 months ago
pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The problem I’m discovering now with Linux & Lenovo/Thinkpads is that Lenovo officially only supports one particular LTS version for any given laptop model. For instance, an X1 Carbon gen 9 officially only supports Ubuntu 20.04. If your laptop – hopefully – lasts longer than the long-term-support duration, then you have to choose between (1) staying with an OS version that’s becoming more and more outdated, or (2) possibly be on your own if hardware/firmware problems appear in the more recent OS version.
Personally when my Thinkpad (Kubuntu) stops working properly I’ll go with a vendor that fully supports Linux, including updates.