On Friday, 26 August 2022 09:28:18 AEST Keech, Richard via luv-main wrote: > <https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/thinkpad-x1-carb > on-gen-10-(14-inch-intel)/21cb0002au>laptop (Lenovo X1 Carbon)? Any known > issues running Linux on it? I've used ThinkPads before with Linux with good > results.
I've had a Thinkpad Carbon X1 Gen1 for my personal use for years. Everything just works. For work I had a Thinkpad Carbon X1 Gen6 for a couple of years, it was quite nice but the sound drivers were a bit buggy. It was probably one of those things where the drivers lag behind hardware availability. Gen10 looks nice, but you only need Gen5 for USB-C/Thunderbolt support and after that there isn't much new that's exciting. I'm currently in the process of getting a Gen5 because the newer ones don't seem to offer anything I want. If you want to do something heavy on a laptop then you might want a Gen10 or one of the bigger models with 16G of RAM. But if you just use a laptop for web browsing, email, and sshing to servers then a Gen1 does everything you need apart from USB-C docking. One of the advantages for me for getting an older one second hand is that it's below the cost threshold that makes me unhappy if something happens to it. Breaking a $500 laptop would be annoying, but breaking a $2000+ laptop would suck really badly. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
