On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 09:13:39AM -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > On 6/5/2020 5:03 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > I also use a Thinkpad (X240) with Debian unstable, it mostly work except > > for some issues with touchpad and suspend (touchpad stops working after > > resuming from suspend, but I work around it using an external mouse). > > > OK - I'll see if I can find out about that. We previously had a similar > issue on the X1C7 and that was fixed by a touchpad firmware update. I don't > have a X240 myself but I'll see what I can find.
Generally, the [TX][245]40 series was not a very good machine regarding Linux, like the older T61[p] line. Things have become a lot better again since then, my X260 works like a charm, the T450 and T460 I had from my last customers were ok as well. Generally, T- and X-Thinkpads are a very good choice for Linux, very popular and widely recommended inside the Community. While we're asking for rainbow colored unicorns here, I'd love the Lenovo support organiation to be a little less bitchy when one admits using Linux, at least for clear hardware faults like broken mouse buttons etc¹, and can I please have the old keyboard style back as an option? And please keep in mind that Linux nerds enjoy tinkering around with their older hardware, so it would be great to have disk slots that conform to the standard and memory that is not soldered in. I have been holding back buying a new Thinkpad for a while because I hate to lose the flexibility that the older series used to have, and I have bought my last three Thinkpads without a support package because Lenovo won't help me anyway because I happen to use the wrong OS. Greetings Marc, writing this on the X260, with three T520 and one X121e in daily use ¹ it really sucks to be required to have a disk with a never-used Windows installation sitting on the shelf just to make the support tech happy -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
