It’s probably been 15 years since I’ve used Linux and Mint seems to be the recommended distro for people who aren’t all that familiar with Linux like me, but I didn’t know if there was anything I should know with this ThinkPad model that anyone is familiar with. My searching around shows people saying everything from it was painless to install to they had tons of issues and I have no idea how common either one is.

So any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

    • rufus
      40·
      8 months ago

      I read the other good advice with the firmware (UEFI) update. If there’s still Windows on it, maybe run Lenovo Vantage and let it update the firmware.

      • Flying SquidOP
        40·
        8 months ago

        Windows 10 is on it. I’ll do that first, thanks!

        • qprimedEnglish
          60·
          8 months ago

          lenovo is also one of the companies that provides packaged firmware updates to the linux fwupd project, so you should be able to maintain firmware updatesfrom linux in the future.

          • mrshy
            30·
            8 months ago

            Oh that’s a nice project for them to participate in!