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I put linux on my x1 carbon (gen 5) and it works well enough. Some notes, in no particular order:

* great keyboard

* kind of shit trackpad

* trackpoint is pretty nice at least

* hidpi is a pain in the ass to set up

..* looks great once you get it working

..* some apps like Zoom refuse to scale up, so the buttons are tiny

* light weight

* really long battery

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kind of shit trackpad

Relevant, recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547817

Setting the QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 env var does the trick for Zoom on my end.

Thanks, I'll try this out next time I need to video call!

edit: good stuff, it works!

I can confirm all of these (didn't have any setup issues though since it's a pre-configured company laptop).

Overall, a really nice laptop (except wtf is that terrible trackpad doing in there?). Didn't find any compatibility problems except the fingerprint scanner. But I didn't try very hard.

Have you found a good way to adjust the trackpoint speed on your X1 Carbon? It's way too slow on my gen 4, and way too fast on my gen 6 (even after configuring it to max speed on the gen 4).

I'm not sure if what I did was the normal way to do it, but:

`xinput list` gave me my trackpoint device's name. Mine is "TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint"

`xinput list-props "TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint"` gives a list of properties you can change.

"libinput Accel Speed (302):" looked promising, so I changed it via:

`xinput set-prop "TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint" 302 0.2` where 302 is the code given in parentheses above, and 0.2 is the speed.

Google Superfish. Seriously.

Just did it. It says the Thinkpad line was never affected. Seriously.

That is utterly irrelevant. You can't trust company that showed malicious intent or wanton disregard to not screw with other products.

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