thinkpads do have issues...

S3 was disabled on some models which meant for the first 6 months of release you couldn't go to sleep.

The new thinkpad yoga x gen 10 uses a intel webcam which uses a special binary blob and doesn't work out of the box, but only if you buy it with windows installed, which makes for a fun game of "does-this-laptop-support-linux-out-of-the-box"

The thinkpad x1 carbon gen. 6 has problems when waking up:

* Sometimes not waking up until you plug in a power problem

* Sometimes having to disable/enable the trackpad to make all buttons work again.

I'm quite happy with using linux on my devices, but many modern thinkpads have issues.

Edit: didn't want to sound aggressive