<story><title>The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/10/thinkpad_x1c_g10_linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stncls</author><text>Periodic reminder: if you plan on using Linux, before buying any laptop, &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; check the Arch Linux wiki first.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t even run Arch, but in my experience, the Arch wikis for hardware support are amazing: complete, accurate, and to the point. For laptops, they start with a small table indicating what works and what does not. Then concise but precise explanations of the pain points. And whenever a fix exists, it is explained in a way that will make it work not only on Arch, but often also on other distros.&lt;p&gt;Take this very laptop for example, the X1 Carbon Gen10. The Arch wiki entry [1] has all the information found in the OP, but it cuts right to the point without any fluff. And then it adds technical explanations and workarounds.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(Gen_10)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>The only place I have found better documentation is the Gentoo wiki: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Main_Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Gentoo wiki illustrates to me that Linux is about &lt;i&gt;constructive&lt;/i&gt; solutions, not crowd sourced testing. If I have a Windows problem, I Google for the magic incantation that was inferred by a thousand desperate disparate voices. If I have a Linux problem, I learn about the components I am using, and how they are intended to behave and fit together.</text></comment>
<story><title>The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/10/thinkpad_x1c_g10_linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stncls</author><text>Periodic reminder: if you plan on using Linux, before buying any laptop, &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; check the Arch Linux wiki first.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t even run Arch, but in my experience, the Arch wikis for hardware support are amazing: complete, accurate, and to the point. For laptops, they start with a small table indicating what works and what does not. Then concise but precise explanations of the pain points. And whenever a fix exists, it is explained in a way that will make it work not only on Arch, but often also on other distros.&lt;p&gt;Take this very laptop for example, the X1 Carbon Gen10. The Arch wiki entry [1] has all the information found in the OP, but it cuts right to the point without any fluff. And then it adds technical explanations and workarounds.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(Gen_10)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Another periodic reminder: Whenever you buy a new laptop don&amp;#x27;t just nuke the Windows install that comes out of the box and go directly to installing Linux, but boot into it first and let Windows Update install all firmware updates as those updates might not be available under Linux.</text></comment>