What distro did you go with? My friend is showing intrest in trying Linux but I’m not sure what to recommend him. I use more advanced distros myself but I want it to work well for him OOtB while also not requiring any tinkering. I’m think of either some ubuntu-flavour or fork, like Kubuntu or maybe Mint.
At least to my understanding. My model is the T14 Gen 1 (AMD). But I would recommend checking newer models.
A few points that indicates this:
It’s possible to order it with linux preinstalled:
In limited countries or regions, Lenovo offers customers an option to order computers with the preinstalled Linux® operating system. - User Guide, Appendix C
Ubuntu 20.04 certification: https://ubuntu.com/certified/202006-27980
RHEL 8.3 certification: https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware/detail/71625
There’s a “Linux Certification” page (whatever that means): https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/pd500492
The BIOS software comes with linux instructions. Though I just use whatever is available with fwupd, which is a CLI application but has GUI support through Gnome with gnome-firmware.
More info about linux support here, under “Notebooks and Laptops”: www.lenovo.com/linux
A million edits later: I got confused by what the product ID was but I think I finally figured it out.
My thinkpad model officially supports linux, so there is no problem there. It is also much cheaper than any of those brands, and it’s also available from the regular stores.
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It should be easy for ltt to reimburse then, which imo should also cover lost opportunity costs and potential damages due to leak of IP.
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I will sound really nit-picky buy the biggest thing keeping me away from using KDE is that accent-colored bar on each window in the taskbar, and the different coloring of open/focused/minimized windows. I want it sleek but not cluttery.
I’ve tried about a dozen themes but I couldn’t find any that got rid of that and looked good. I tried fixing it myself but editing svg files was too difficult for me.
I hope plasma 6 adds more options for this but I’m not holding my breath.
Depends on the devs but I reckon they won’t use the API.
Something i especially appreciate about winget us that it will “index” (or whatever you want to call it) software that was installed outside of it. For example if I install app XYZ through an .msi setup file, I can update it using winget.
So it seems I can also use scoop or chocolatey to install new software and then keep managing them through winget.
To me it looks like it’s the officers fist that broke the window, not the kids face. Hopefully he wasn’t badly hurt.
Interesting! I used arch for about 2 years on my gaming rig and it worked fine but I was worried if he went with something based on Arch that he would eventually run into issues due to not properly maintaining it (avoiding partial upgrades for example). But I’m probably overthinking it. If he sticks to a GUI for installing and updating packages and avoid messing with the terminal initially it should be fine.
I will add EndeavourOS to a small list of recommendations (rolling vs point release) so he can decide for himself.