It's surprisingly difficult to find options for laptops shipping #Fedora or any other supported non-ChromeOS flavor of #Linux from the #Lenovo website.
The option definitely exists if you happen to know a model that supports it and take the time to hunt and peck for the option, but this is definitely a regression in the experience.
@thefossguy The current status is that #Qualcomm is touting #Linux support for these Snapdragon X ARM procs and #Lenovo is shipping two laptops with them, but neither with a Linux option. 😕
@vwbusguy
I didn't find the option when buying recently and shortly after was told by #Lenovo support that they don't support #Linux.
This was a #Legion9 which I've had for about a month.
I'm dual booting #Ubuntu 24 and it is good enough. Good enough that I've not bothered looking for any drivers yet and loving the super fast development.
The efficiency boost is honestly mind blowing. And that is with so many keystrokes to wrap my head around. Absolutely worth the money and lets me work at least four times as fast as with the previous setups.
Would I have liked to keep on using Linux? Yes but at this point if one is doing more than just browsing the web and reading E-Mails it is very hard to recommend.
@WestphalDenn I just bought a #Lenovo#Legion9 and had the opposite experience.
I keep hearing people say things about #Linux v #Windows which aren't true, and in a recent discussion they turned out to be out of date opinions from someone not using it.
Obviously you were, but I take issue that it's only good for basic tasks. I do all sorts and it just gets better while Windows degrades and spys.
W11 cursor was jerky, sending all cicks home. Noticeably faster when I switched to #Ubuntu 24.
AI Laptop REACTIONS! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45Q
Checking out all the announcements today from Dell, HP, Microsoft, Samsung, Acer, Asus, and Lenovo! I did a live recording of my reactions.
Windows on ARM is getting REALLY exciting! Here are some things to look out for while shopping a new "AI" laptop!
Is anyone running Linux on a Lenovo ThinkPad T490 or T490s? I'm thinking about buying a refurbished model since I have to give back my work laptop. #linux#Lenovo
Five days since my #Legion9#i9 laptop arrived and I put #Ubuntu24 on it, then my data, dev tools etc.
Status:
most things just work: Canon printer, disk mounting, USB devices etc and I figured out how to configure the 🎄 keyboard/led modes. Minor foibles like Dash-to-panel settings missing sometimes.
Boy is it fast. LLM answers instant (no CUDA yet), build flies etc.
internal speakers not working but I have also a Bluetooth speaker. Trackpad too, so bought USB mouse+TP.
I have had a new laptop for a day, and it's shit-hot!
Clearly aimed at gamers but the best spec I could find for development.
I went #Lenovo#Legion9 (max), rather than #Dell for the first time because the spec, and the fact my last Dell is faulty after 6 years (whereas my previous 15yr Dell is still perfect).
Lenovo support is poor, outsourced, unhelpful and knows less than I do.
Windows 11 was the only option, so no Ubuntu drivers. But ok, except the trackpad so far, USB devices on order.
Folks are enjoying the Fedora and @centos booth at Red Hat Summit this week. Come check out the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Slimbook Fedora 1 if you're here!
Thanks to Lenovo and Slimbook for these awesome devices that come with Fedora preinstalled!
I hooked my GNU/Linux-loving son up with an old #lenovo#thinkcenter mini-PC that I picked up at a used AV store for about $50. For another $20, I upgraded the ram to 12GB.
He's got it setup it up with #debian as his first home server, with which he's now hosting a few static websites and an internet radio station for his friends and family. He's got loads of resources to spare for when he gets into running larger services.
You don't need to spend $30+ a month on cloud services when an old recycled office PC will more than suffice.
The best part? Helping him troubleshoot his problems with #DNS and #nginx and all that fun stuff. I've already made every mistake possible over the decades, and he gets to benefit from that. That how it should work!
Spent the afternoon trying to get my 3500U to downclock to anything lower than 1.4GHz... long story short, amd_pstate is gatekept by Lenovo's unwillingness to allow us to enable ACPI on the BIOS of the Thinkpad T495, where there is a huge amount of people complaining about this and yet no BIOS update has been provided... some work is ongoing on kernel 6.8+ to bring compatibility to AMD APUs but we are not there yet... Of course, if I had Windows, this works, regardless of the BIOS. So there's that. I'll wait for the geniuses to crack this CPU power savings and underclocking. Meantime? Will carry my laptop charger, just in case I need to juice it up.
Das hatte ich schonmal repariert gehabt (ganze Kühlkörper-Lüfter-Kombo ausgetauscht), aber anscheinend bin ich nicht gut genug für um mit Hardware was zu machen. Daher würde ich das jetzt gerne professionell reparieren lassen, von jemandem, der da Ahnung von hat. (Daß das über dem Neuwert liegt ist mir klar, aber ich mag keine neueren Laptops, die machen alles kaputt (Display doof, Tastatur doof, Touchpad).)
Haken: es handelt sich um mein Dienstlaptop, daher braucht’s eine Rechnung auf den Firmennamen hinterher, und bitte in .de.