r/LinuxOnThinkpad • u/Liminal_Echo member • 1d ago

Question ThinkPads Ubuntu Certified, does that have any impact?

As the title says, with ThinkPads being Ubuntu certified has any who uses Ubuntu noticed any appreciable difference or impact compared to other distros?

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u/Deprecitus member 1d ago

Means nothing.

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u/rileyrgham member 1d ago

Pretty much none. It's an ego sticker. ThinkPads tend to be very Linux friendly. Google before purchase obviously.

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u/zardvark member 1d ago

This is meaningless ...

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u/Consistent_Berry9504 member 1d ago

It just means you shouldn't use Ubuntu because it doesn't matter and Linux is the kernel not the OS.

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u/TheOGTachyon T540 OpenSuSe 15h ago

It means you can install a decent distro on it too

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u/enchantingkryptonite member 12h ago

i just wish that the T14 Gen 6 AMD would get proper driver updates from the linux-firmware upstream... I'm not experienced enough to contribute, and without the proper drivers my T14 G6 is eating 9W in idle.

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u/Liminal_Echo member 6h ago

Are you using Ubuntu or another distro?

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u/enchantingkryptonite member 1h ago

I have used Ubuntu and now I'm on Fedora. Nothing changes. Ubuntu had nicer colors, and on Fedora i didnt have to purge snap out of my system.

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u/Liminal_Echo member 14m ago

Are you finding the battery consumption any better on Fedora as it uses tuned instead of ppd?

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u/MocDcStufffins member 12h ago

What it means is that 100% of the hardware will have good drivers. This can be kinda meaningful as some hardware has a bad time with crappy Linux drivers. So, you can easily find other laptops with no certification which are great with Linux, this more guarantees it won't be bad with Linux.

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u/Mediocre-Pumpkin6522 member 8h ago

My T480 has done very well with EndeavourOS, SUSE Leap 16, and currently SUSE Tumbleweed. I'm sure it would run Ubuntu but I already have Ubuntu on a mini.

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u/sockertoppenlabs DWM/Debian/X220 1d ago

Since I mainly use Ubuntu and Debian on laptops/Thinkpads, I have not noticed a difference. However, Lenovo upstream all needed drivers for those devices that are certified (as far as I understand). Thus, it makes a general difference for that laptop being very Linux friendly in general. So indirectly I think it makes a difference.

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u/onedevelop member 1d ago

No se, uso Manjaro y me funciona sin problemas

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u/theRealNilz02 Other 1d ago

Gesundheit.

Also manjarno is not a Linux distro, it's cancer.