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Those are my thoughts exactly!

I was going to buy this day 1, then I found out Linux support wasn't ready and I went with a new AMD 365 laptop instead. This was it's own adventure, with Ubuntu not working out of the box, so I had to go with a rolling release distro.

It's been months and I think Ubuntu might boot on the Thinkpad 14s. It's definitely not supported as a daily driver, or on any other hardware.

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Ubuntu released a special version for the SXE chip that specifically listed the Thinkpad 14s as the best-supported PC with the chip.

If you are playing your cards right, its best to be on mainline kernels and in the stock non-lts release by default in most distros.

I don't disagree, but a kernel that works right now is better than not having any.

Why non-LTS out of curiosity?

> Why non-LTS out of curiosity?

Based on my experience, more recent kernel versions have more fixes/better support for recent hardware(or sometimes not so recent). LTS doesn't backport everything from later releases for obvious reasons.

Expecting hardware companies to get things ready so much ahead of time that they make the cut for a LTS release might lean towards being too unrealistic since LTS releases have a fair bit of gap between them.

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