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Comment by vinay427 | Hacker News Reader

How did Lenovo burn you? Even minimal distros such as Arch with various DEs/WMs work great out of the box on my T450s, because all of the hardware is supported in the kernel. Reading the 2015 XPS 13 Ubuntu guide made it seem like a painful process that involved downloading drivers, etc.

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3 things I can think of straight away:

- WiFi-card whitelist

- Function-keys touch strip

- Fn and Ctrl keys switch

  - WiFi-card whitelist

gone in the [x,t][2,4,5]50 series

  - Function-keys touch strip

existed on one model for one revision, is now gone

  - Fn and Ctrl keys switch

this layout is correct and is mandated in the first chapter of the Bible

If you mean that from the left edge of the keyboard you have Fn and then Ctrl, then yes it's correct, however I checked my Bible and (un)fortunately God decided that the order of keyboard keys just wasn't worth divine inspiration.

- Terrible screen ghosting

(I assume your reference is the 2014 X1 since you mention the touch strip)

I just listed some strange hardware choices they made over the last couple of years. Not related to a specific model.

The Fn and Ctrl keys should be switchable in BIOS. At least it is on T440.

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