Same here, I have not tried SW, I need to start playing with it but I run Linux on Thinkpads of all sizes and types. I have a X201 and a X301 both running Ubuntu Mate with Compiz (love the cube) on the 201 I am running Win10 in a VM, by the way there is a cult of people that "whoop up" think pads like some people "whoop up" cars.
I have had driver issues, but you have that with M$ products all of the time. Indeed I have found that windows runs smoother in my VM on my X201 than running it on the bare metal. I am betting that Slack being Slack you can probably "whoop" that Thinkpad up to where it really smokes. By way I have a X200 that I need to replace the light tubes on, otherwise it is a great machine too. By way you can almost find the parts for Thinkpads in the nearest dumpster, and the prices are not at all bad. On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > For what it is worth, I run every mainstream Linux except Slackware and > Arch on on Thinkpads. I am just not familiar with those distros. > > In fact, I use Thinkpads because of their longevity and trouble free > Linux experience. Trouble free meaning, no exotic hardware which needs > special drivers, just plain, basic and modular HW. > > Based on my Thinkpad experience, I would suggest to check the checksum > of your installation media, try different installation media (perhaps > network install), try different external drive if this is the first > time you use it, check some live distro such as Knoppix .... to weed > out bad USB cables and gain confidence in your laptop. > > Hope it helps, Tomas > > On Sun, 2016-10-23 at 08:47 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > > > There is a Thinkpad mailing list: > > > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad > > > > Thanks, John. I just subscribed. > > > > > Not much traffic, but I've had good luck there in the past. I'm > > > still > > > subscribed, and I remember reading just the other day about a > > > problem > > > similar to yours, although I think it was a very recent model that > > > was > > > affected. Apparently Lenovo paired with Microsoft to do something > > > with the > > > disk drives to make them faster. The only fix at this time is to > > > install > > > the latest Ubuntu, which has modifications so it can be installed. > > > Again, > > > I don't recall which model was affected, and I have deleted the > > > thread. > > > > There must be a way for distributions other than the Ubuntus to > > run on > > this hardware. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
