I can’t honestly recall or put my finger on it what I did wrong.

Choose fedora because it used my laptop subwoofer and wasn’t a rolling release. I remember each time (x2) reading about how to update the distro and each time my system was completely borked. I went to debian, read upon alsa, made my subwoofer work with a homegrown script and never looked back.

To this day I am wondering if people recommending redhat are trolls or paid.

Never have I ever successfully updated a fedora system. It was always a reinstall.

Graphics driver for sc8280xp are already a thing. There are more issues in convenience daily driving linux, currently. From the top of my head:

• firmware update path
• dtb update/loading path
• no virtualization
• no universal dock compability
• missing HDMI/DP features

I suspect that these issues are common between their ARM chips and will be addressed for both chips almost simultaneously. But I have no real idea on kernel development. And their documentation is only shared with linaro so one can only guess.

Modularity of software ranked way too low.

It is bearable but feature complete. Every month linaro and the community add functionality. The most recent things include a custom power-domain mapper implementation and apparently camera support.

If you are running wayland you can simply install any os and its working oob.

The laptops weight and heat production is awesome. Very practical. Also the body is exceptional sturdy and worth mentioning (even in comparsion to a T14, e.g.).

But:

• external monitors are not detected at boot
• no hibernation
• battery time is very depended on the task. It ranges from 4 to 13 hours.
• no virtualization support, so one is stuck with tiny code generator runtime when using kvm
• audio is pretty quiet, so depending on the environment an external source is required.

I followed almost all patches on the lkml. It appears to me that the upcoming chip can benefit from the sc8280xp hugely. It sufficies for my use cases but I promised myself a little better, yet.

Man. I bought Lenovo ARM. I wanted to buy a tuxedo so badly. Now I’m stuck with this thinkpad.

This should get their slogan. Any linux should have this slogan :) Have fun on your endeavors!!

You can use LFS to… Install targeted-kernel Setup AUR/pacman as package manager Use a minimal DE if needed. Otherwise just use the x.org kiosk to start your applications without any de.

Especially on servers I make sure to attend in the software packages survey. Just so that the holy-gods and kings of maintainers are aware of me, the peasant running old packages.

No yield saya. I’m sorry.

I disagree naming Flatpak etc. as the reason for more adoption. New users I know of do not know how to search for software and software alternatives in the first place.

Documentation and engagement on linux just improves by each day. Experiences are shared and people may just be curious. Then there are news about linux breakthroughs by big players like valve.

Imo a beginner linux distro should prompt on install:

If you are a potential linux adaptor do not get discouraged. You may have spent your entire life building knowledge for an other operating system. Once you grok the aimed simplicity of UNIX and which parts are involved in your daily tasks you will be at least as efficient as with other operating systems. The most inportant thing: Have fun on your journey and engage in our chats, forums and/or in social media.

Thank you for your attention.

:!w /etc/fstab first!

Congratulations to all involved!

Instead of a install skript, check out GNU stow. It does exactly that and you can interqctively choose which things to install/symlink.

The gpu is fully supported to my knowledge.

Compare to a text version: http://www.slackware.com/config/rootdir.php

Congratulation to the KDE team! Well done!!

Sorry to hear! I really want to say it again: The manhfacture has to support linux officially. Otherwise there are things not mentioned in the documentation and the maintainers are working nonstop across multiple repositories to make it work.

Thinks of the top on my head not listed in the wikis:

• 6 or 8 cores with 100% CPU load drains the battery more then it can load (for now?)
• no sound via HDMI/display port
• doesn’t detect external monitor when booting. Forcing one to replug.

These issues are somewhat mentioned. So I do not want to nitpick. Instead contributed some solutions/hints for things I was able to infer. So please don’t hate me. I’m new.

Got this one. I like it but support is really rough. Not officially supported but they are helping somewhat the motivated guys getting it upstream. Was advertised with 28 hour battery life as well. You can get 12 hours in linux, less in windows.

Peformancewise it is flawless. The weight is awesome. Very comfy on the lap. But its almost two years and very much is missing.

If the new generation doesn’t have official linux compatibility I would not recommend buying it on release.

Exactly this.

I hibernated one of my laptops and someone else opened it and just got back into my session.

I would be glad if i could use the multi.user-target for this because I experienced different issues with login managers like LightDM, GDM and SDDM and started to mistrust such.

What kind of workstation? Is your software fully compatible with arm and the gpu stack?

I would verify that the new Nvidia gpus work well with the arm-kernel; Though I cant possibly imagine why it would differ to x86_64. I don’t know though.

Personally I would not consider any Nvidia card for linux. Simply due to the fact that nvidia may hide capabilities after the purchase. If you need e.g. virtualization in the future the flag may already hidden or change afterwards by nvidia (happend before). They will force a non-consumer card at you for this.

I am a happy linux-arm user.