• Michal@programming.dev
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    7 days ago

    They gatekeep windows 11 from older devices, what did they think would happen? I tried Linux on my thinkpad yoga, and the drivers are so shit i had to switch back to windows on it, and no, I’m not throwing away a perfectly good laptop!

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      7 days ago

      Out of curiosity, what Linux did you try on it? Relatively new and you tried Mint maybe?

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        7 days ago

        I ran mint on an hm110 with an old as balls nvidia and the only bug i had was tracking down the 330 drivers so i could shut the godddamn fan up. (And then had to compile a Kodi build from source yay thanks muppets)

        Linux isn’t as transparent as windows when it comes to legacy drivers, it’s always been an issue

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          7 days ago

          Not to sell your experience short, that sucks, but that’s on Nvidia for being the worst company in the world for driver support.

          • Michal@programming.dev
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            6 days ago

            X1 yoga 3rd gen, so around 2018ish. The stylus and thunderbolt are broken. And the mouse lags. I already wasted a lot of time troubleshooting it. I’ll try again in a few years, maybe it’ll be fixed.

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              6 days ago

              Well I’ll be. Didn’t know the Yoga line had abnormal hardware for things like trackpads/etc, as Thinkpads in general are considered to be so good for Linux. If you should tinker in the future maybe try something with a much more modern kernel 7+ like CachyOS. Either way nice chatting have a good one.