Microsoft and Lenovo

What are you confused by?

Anything that doesn’t have an external connector or some way to mount one. One example would be if you were using a USB Wi-Fi radio and wanted to connect it to the internal USB connectors but you’d need to pass the antenna to the outside of the case.

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Not just for water cooling. It’s for cables that pass in or out too.

This is the result of Microsoft being so cozy with hardware vendors.

You’re the one that made the claim that they’re the “only mainstream brand that cares about Linux”. It’s up to you to prove it.

You sure about that?. Where does this myth come from that Lenovo cares about Linux users?

“clean install” is Windows-user logic. Doesn’t apply to Linux.

Sorry for your loss. I went through this myself today. I’m devastated.

are they just kissing Microsoft’s ass?

This. 100%. It’s why I don’t understand folks recommending Lenovo laptops to run Linux on. Lenovo is in bed well Microsoft and caters to whatever they want. SecureBoot, modern standby, etc. We need more vendors supporting open source firmware like Coreboot.

Edit: feel free to refute me instead of just down voting.

Fedora is probably the closest you can practically get.

I bet there exist some Linux installs out there with a different shell than ‘bash’,

100%. Alpine is one such distro.

It’s not reasonable in any language

Based on what?

Press X to doubt

The problematic models we have are all T series.

We have nothing but problems with the ThinkPads issued by my IT department. Multiple models. They’re not what they used to be.

Better to just buy a System 76 or Framework.

Agreed. Most Youtube thumbnails are cancer. Bug eyes with mouth wide open or pointing at something. Enough already.