[ltp] What T for Fedora?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Beartooth <Beartooth at comcast.net>

I'm much less experienced than a number of list members but I didn't
want to let the silence stand.

| 	I've read, though I disremember where and when, that some 
| malevolent soul had come up with a way to make it hard to replace the OS 
| on a computer. Unlikely though that seems, I've had a netbook and a PC 
| from an outfit that builds them with Ubuntu pre-installed; the first 
| accepted Fedora instead with ease, but the second was so troublesome that 
| I had to get help, even though I've been installing and running Fedora 
| since it was RH 7.
| 
| 	I don't know whether modern Thinkpads have this malevolent 
| feature, though I hope not. In any case, the time has about come for a 

I've had troublesome notebooks.  In each case, I've tried to narrow
things down to make the description more useful.  What was this
malevolent feature?

ThinkPads almost always work with Linux.

There might be components that do not (for example, a finger-print
reader).

Linux supports Intel GPUs better than AMD or NVidia GPUs.  I prefer
not to get a discrete GPU in a notebook.

At least in the past, Lenovo seems to treat failure to run Linux as a
bug.  Officially the probably only support a few distros (RHEL, Suse,
and maybe Ubuntu).  And probably on a few select hardware builds.

| 	It can be on the large side. I think I prefer new.

Thinkpads are not cheap.  There are some tricks to get better prices.
The tricks I know probably don't apply in the US.

The T580 is the classic big one.  I'd love to have one with an UltraHD
display.

Big ones tend to be more user-serviceable: removeable batteries, RAM,
HDD, M.2 disks, keyboards, ...