Looking to pull the trigger on a X1 Carbon Gen 9 but given the RAM is soldered to the board, will 8GB be enough? Going to be running a Debian variant of Linux probably Mint using it for productivity and web browsing. No gaming or video editing. Windows guy looking make this my full time Linux box.

Hello!

I am considering buying a Thinkpad. I intend to develop compiler software on the Thinkpad using my standard UNIX tools (BASH, git,gcc,emacs,vim) in languages such as C, ANSI Common Lisp, OCaml, Standard ML, and Coq.

I also make videos where I screen capture what's on the CLI along with a facecam where I talk about code. You can see my Youtube channel for an idea of how that goes: https://www.youtube.com/@fosres

In general, I guess a decent Thinkpad might be sufficient for my needs. Which Thinkpad models would you recommend for my case?

yes guys you read the title right ik the laptop is very old
somehow we have managed to get windows 7 (unactivated) running on it
it has 1GB RAM and the processor can go 1.5Ghz (its a pentium)
the problem is,even browser struggles to open in it,nothing works,changing wallpaper takes solid 10secs
it DOES NOT have a gpu,the screen resolution is kinda ok, and of course, it has the good old 4:3 ratio and it has 30GB memory free as of now.also,there is NO WIFI support in the laptop.
so,my question is,will i be able to run linux in it? if yes then tell me which version of linux , since i have zero knowledge of installing linux whatesover

btw i gave a gaming pc with good specs to help with installation too,but i really want linux in this r51 laptop,i have 2 usb sticks of 8 and 32 GB storage each to help.
any help would be appreciated.

Hi, I used to have around 9 hours battery life with the previous OS (W10)

Now it's around 7 hours, even if I have not yet capped the charging limit to 80%, but it's still 100%

I have used power-profiles but when I set it to "battery saver" , it makes the green on screen appear like this https://colorcodes.io/green/fluorescent-green-color-codes/

I'd like to give https://linrunner.de/tlp/settings/battery.html a try

Anyone here who has had good experience with it on T14 or other ThinkPads ?

Thanks

When I was using W10 on T14 , I had a Lenovo Care sort of application, which told me if any driver or BIOS update was needed

Now on Linux Mint 22, how can I access those ThinkPad-specific information ?

I have a new SSD, only Linux installed

Thank you

Sometimes my Thinkpad is not waking up after I lock it and close the lid. I can also see that sometimes when I close the lid the laptop is not sleeping immediately. I have Ubuntu22. 04.4 on my laptop. Do I update any drivers ? Or do I change the OS to something else please advice.

I'm in a university project where I have to create a multiplayer server so that people who are not on the same network can connect to the server. It should be said that it is Minecraft Bedrock. I saw several tutorials but this time it is with Linux. Will they have any tutorials or guides? How to do it?

Hello, I’ve been struggling to figure out how to edit my current charging configuration. When my ThinkPad is turned on and plugged into AC, it doesn’t charge. ACPI simply states "Not Charging," but the battery percentage remains unchanged. When I disconnect the power cable, ACPI reports "Discharging." Has anyone experienced a similar issue? I can still charge the laptop, but it only charges when it’s turned off. I checked the BIOS, and there’s no relevant setting there. I also used TLP to adjust the charging threshold, but that’s not the issue, as the battery doesn’t change at all and never reaches the lower threshold. Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I recently got a T470 from a company event that I went to, however none of the batteries inside work. After running some tests I can see that it has an almost new capacity and has never been used. Ive done some research online and it seems as though lenovo have a chip inside that stops the batteries from charging seemingly whenever they want you to buy a replacement.

Would installing linux on the laptop remove this lock and allow the batteries to charge again or am I going to have to sink £50 into a genuine replacement?

I charged, then turned on my T490, and got this error:

Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi - Not Found
Failed to load image : Not Found
Failed to start MokManager : Not Found
Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed : Not Found

So I tried to install Bluefin, which I was running before, but it was taking forever, so I replaced the SSD and tried again. The installation finished, but upon booting, I received the same error.
I looked around in the bios and turned off the TPM (even though it wasn’t a problem before), but received the same error when I tried to install again.

Suggestions appreciated!

https://preview.redd.it/uzth5utj1sbe1.jpg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9075f73aedf6473a3a13166b080cf9ef5f265c17

Simple as that I am in love with those yoga 7i laptops, checked one in my shopping mall reseller and love everything, build quality amazing 2.2k ips (hate oled screens) and keyboard feels really good to me. Wondering as this is almost two years old laptop if everything just works out of the box (or at least 95%) when installing linux like Linux Mint or try Fedora KDE.

And also is fan noise on the low side? I am looking for an inaudible fan noise experience and I am trying to not buy a Macbook air for that.

Same specs as this one:

https://a.co/d/7tJARfk

Thanks!!

System info:

• T14s gen4 amd
• Arch Linux, kernel version 6.12.4
• BIOS version 1.20, no updates available according to fwupd
• xfce4 desktop env

Hi all. I'm having an issue with the suspension function of my thinkpad. The system correctly enters the suspension state, e.g. by using the "suspend" button of xfce4, but wakes up from it if the laptop is handled, like moved to another table, put in a backpack and so on.

If the thinkpad is not handled or handled with extreme care, the suspension is not interrupted and behaves as expected for many hours (1.5 days is the longest I've tried).

I have checked that the waking behavior has nothing to do with wlan, bluetooth or plugging devices in or out. I figure that there is some wakeup trigger that I unwillingly activate when handling the computer. I have tried deactivating the trackpoint, but the issue persists. It might be the trackpad or the keyboard, but if I deactivate those, I won't be able to turn them back on since I do not have externals at the moment (which also would make that workaround not practical in general).

I'd appreciate any hints you might have.

created a first small cli app....its not much but it helps me, maybe it will help you too....feedback is welcome!

https://github.com/KukicVidan/easy-alias/tree/main

Hello,

I'm looking at a refurbished ultraportable to replace my creaking x260. I'll be running Fedora, doing office work & occasionally watching a movie or playing Civilization. Questions for you:

• how's the battery life? I'm spoiled by the big battery on my x260 and hope to get 7+ hours out of a charge. (i had a T14 with the sleep-drain problem and it was extremely frustrating)
• has anyone replaced their internal battery? worth it?
• will Civ 6 run or should I stick with 4-5?

thanks <3

Couple of weeks ago after some upgrade I lost ability to play sound on internal speakers and use internal mic. Everything was working fine before. Since then I have updated all packages and installed linux-generic-hwe-24.04.

I see this error during driver initialization

[ 18.389553] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: codec #0 probe error, ret: -5

I tried enabling legacy driver by adding:

options snd_intel_dspcfg dsp_driver=1

but it only added Pro audio which did not work either. I've returned it back to SOF since it was working before.

pactl list sinks shows on "Dummy output". pactl list cards shows "alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic"

Any suggestions how to fix this?

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS x86_64 Host: 21HM002FUS ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 Kernel: 6.8.0-51-generic

I am in the market to buy a new laptop and I am (almost) decided to buy the 2023 T14s gen 4 with AMD ryzen 7840u and 32gb of ram with a 1200p 400 nits low power display.
Anyone can share their opinion if it worth buy it in 2024 instead of buying a new model like T14 gen 5 or somethink like that?

How long the battery last using Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any other popular distro? Thanks in advance.

I own a T570 with an intel internal graphics chip and a dedicated Nvidia GeForce 940MX. I want to use the nvidia gpu for gaming with nvidia prime. Unfortunately the kernel of my Kubuntu 24.04.1 System does only recognize the intel gpu.

lspci | grep VGA returns:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] (rev 07)

How can I make the dedicated gpu able to run?

I just got an e16 Gen 2 (AMD). Everything seems to be running ok but i've got no microphone at all. I've tried messing with hdajack and nothing worked. Alsa bars are not muted. Does someone know something?

Hey folks. I'm trying to get the fingerprint reader going on my trusty loaded up ThinkPad T61p running Linux Mint v22. I get all the way through enrolling my finger successfully with fprintd-enroll [finger].

Next I have to run sudo fprintd-verify to verify it. Each time I run that I get the graphical popup to enter my password. By the time I do that the fprintd-verify has timed out with

ListEnrolledFingers failed: GDBus.Error:net.reactivated.Fprint.Error.NoEnrolledPrints: Failed to discover prints

Does anyone know how to bypass the popup password dialog to allow fingerprint verification to keep the focus? Thanks for any help you can give me!

I have the most current Ubuntu, and when I wake my laptop after it has fallen asleep, it has he back light all the way down despite previous settings. The quick controls will show my previous level even though it isn't accurate. The only thing that fixes it is to adjust the brightness then it reverts.

It's working fine when it's on ac power. I havr tried to look into logs but nothing caught my attention. My battery looks fine when I checked it using upower command. Any idea what could be the issue?

I've got 4 updates waiting. two for the Thinkpad and two for the gen 2 doc. None will download. The error I get is this:

Unable to update "Thinkpad Gen2 USB Hub Device update" as download failed:

Failed to download https://fwupd.org/downloads/yadayada8244751c7cf2.cab:

Unknown error: access denied -- You must set the User-Agent header to use this endpoint

I'm at a loss. I'm an old timer in Linux but this one has me stumped. I can see the file is a .cab which I recognize as a windows install library. So do I need Windows to load this? If so why is it coming up in Linux update? confused.

Installed Ubuntu 24.04 on a new-to-me X1, but gave up and switched back to Windows because the touchpad was incredibly maddening to use. It worked, fundamentally, but it was bizarrely vague and lurchy. Clicking on a hyperlink took a few tries, never mind trying to maximize a window. This behavior persisted regardless of any touchpad settings, under X11 (bad) or Wayland (worse). On Windows 11, the touchpad is totally fine.

However, Windows 11 itself is intolerable (it's like the Las Vegas strip manifested itself as an operating system). Has anyone had any luck with this hardware on any other Ubuntu release or Linux distro, or found some tweak that fixed it?

I am at a bit of a loss. I have scoured the subreddits looking for any information on how to get this setup to work, and all I can find is people saying they got it to work. Can anyone that has successfully done this be able to help a brother out?

Mine while docked will charge and recognize the ethernet port from the dock. the monitor will *sometimes* work momentarily, and the dock's USBs are dead in the water. I am running the most current version of Ubuntu

Hello. I need your thoughts on what to do for reliable backup on a X220, running pure Linux (no Windows or dual boot).

My setup

• 2.5" SSD
• mSATA SSD
• ultrabay dock (caddy via optical drive). This can be HDD or SSD.
• maybe 1 separate external SSD.

I carry the laptop around 60% of the time, the dock is only when I need to use the monitors. I.e. the 2.5 inch SSD and mSATA SSD are often on the move, the dock's drive stays in 1 place.

What I need

1. I need to backup my personal files in /home. I do have cloud storage but I want to keep an offline backup of things.

2. I want to somehow backup my system settings. So the: /home/user/.config and other important libraries and settings in root. So in case of a kernel bug and I need to reinstall (very rare but just in case), I can just restore the settings quickly.

My approaches

1. Keep the OS on one drive, preferably 2.5" SSD for speed. The mSATA is for system files backup, via Timeshift. The dock HDD is for heavy media like movies => I use Dejadup for this. So I can set it up to backup whenever the dock is connected.

2. Split up the drive: mSATA for root and everything else is in the 2.5" SSD (preferably the /home). All backups (Timeshift and Dejafup) will be done to the dock's HDD.

Appreciate any inputs. I have no preferences for filesystem (currently everything is EXT4), but would like to know what is best too.