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New laptop time. Thinkpad recommendations?
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This will be high on my list when I upgrade next. If you know your OS will be Linux I say it's a waste of time and energy to get a laptop that doesn't come loaded with it. I'm sure 90% of my laptop woes are due to poor support and optimization for Linux.
Still, you can pry Linux from my cold dead hands.
I'll be a homesteading hermit living off grid in the bush before I install Windows on a personal PC.
I've actually had a few issues with Linux on my ThinkPad, have struggled endlessly with the fingerprint reader and Nvidia on Wayland is a bit of a pain still
It rings a bell
I managed to get it working on Ubuntu once and then never again
I think I might've screwed it up by trying to get it working dual booted
I'm on NixOS so no yast, I've tried installing the one that supposedly worked for a p50