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If the state of Linux on desktops is anything to go by, Linux on smartphones will never be a success story either. I frequently regret buying a ThinkPad with AMD CPU/GPU after listening to the propaganda about open source GPU drivers. My laptop was basically a paperweight for a month until I downgraded linux-firmware package. No one wants to deal with this shit.

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> No one wants to deal with this shit.

YMMV but I do. That kind of hassle is the tax that I’m perfectly willing to pay for having FOSS stuff.

Let’s celebrate that we have options.

Curious, which ThinkPad was this? I got a T14s with AMD last year and it is one of best laptops I've used till date, and works with Linux out of the box, incl graphics, networking, USB-C docks etc.

The ThinkPad model doesn't really matter because all of them would use the same AMDGPU driver and firmware assuming it has AMD hardware.

If you're interested, here's a thread about the issue me and several other people have been facing.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=266358

The issue has been "fixed" for now by downgrading to the March 2021 release of Linux Firmware for most people. Of course, this isn't really a fix.

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