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Comment by vzaliva | Hacker News Reader

What about problems people mention here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22969469

I love ThinkPad and planning to buy one soon, but reporters of problems with sound and WiFi drivers concerning.

I mean, buying a brand-new device and using Ubuntu 19.04 with the 5.0 kernel from a year ago and outdated packages is begging for trouble.

Since linux drivers live mostly in kernel space, for new devices I would imagine a lot of issues would be fixed by running the latest kernel or mainline for even newer hardware.

The newer Carbons and the X1 Extreme have had a rougher time than most Lenovo laptops. My T480 and T580 were pretty much perfect from the jump, but my X1 Extreme remains disappointing.

Recently bought T490 worked with Debian stable out of the box.

I installed Ubuntu 19.04 on X1 Extreme Gen 2 and didn't have any issues. Upgrades to 19.10 and 20.04 have been painless as well. Everything basically works.

I have an X1 Extreme Gen 1 and it's had power/battery issues since I got it.

Yep same on the Gen 1, it's an awful machine.

Running 20.04 on X1E G2 without issues here.

Providing you pick one with intel wifi you'll have no problem. As far as I can see, that's the only real disadvantage of these AMD models.

Having an AMD cpu doesn't prevent having an Intel wifi chipset. My AMD based Thinkpad T495 has an Intel wifi chipset.

I didn't know that, thanks.

I've been running Arch on X1Y2 no problem

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