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> good to see linux being sold in laptop out of the box.

I remember knowing that if I got an IBM ThinkPad, it probably had good Linux driver support.

I still make the assumption that Lenovo ThinkPads have better Linux driver support because hackers prefer them. But I honestly have no idea if that's true any more.



Mine needs an unofficial wifi driver or the connection will just die every 20 minutes, and the NVidia Optimus hardware is a nightmare.

I like the laptop overall but I'll never touch NVidia stuff again. Drivers are among the things I just don't want to deal with.


Better than average but the majority of laptops use the same hardware and drivers. A bad wifi chip here or an odd fingerprint reader there are the majority of issues.


Various, generally older, ThinkPads are popular in the *BSD communities too.




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