AKA people are idiots.

Even t430 from 2014 has a battery whitelist.

And different wwan cards. How are you supposed to add mobile broadband? Buy the same as OEM card?

Well, mine just fell apart. Now I have an old Latitude. As far as I know the business HP-s are decent, but consumer ones are already a rotting corpse when you buy them.

Hm, I had a 250 g5 and it ran linux instantly after install (in ~2018-19).

T and P series is aparently good, normal L is decent, but others are terrible (yoga, x, ideapad, etc.). But I haven’t used TP-s myself. I did use an Ideapad and it’s terrible (no upgradability, falling apart metal chassis (how the hell does metal break), no key-travel (feels like hitting a rock while typing) and it has a shitload of mediatek hardware which is a pain on linux (but I haven’t tested it as it’s my dad’s).

Well, the quality of most laptops fell enough in the last decade, that the clevos are decent now. Also, fuck thinkpad part rejection, I’m definitely not buying a (edit: new) TP.

Hey, dells used to be decent. I thing my latitude 5290 is a better investment then a x280 (since it has upgradable ram and practically same build quality).

Enjoy, but don’t expect to fix stuff as I haven’t experienced any issues yet.

BTW, yast exists. I use it if I’m to lazy to research how stuff works.

Well, the drivers have matured since then. And my latitude 5290 is a buisness laptop, so they usually don’t screw consumers as much.

Yep, I never had a serious problem with any laptop from the last ~20 years (but I do usually use older hardware, my main laptop is from ~2018)

Well, intels almost always work, but mediatek…well it’s not even worth mentioning.