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!

  • intelisense
    160·
    8 months ago

    Thinkpads are great for running Linux, but one thing I’ve noticed is thinkfan is not installed by any distro I’ve tried. You definitely want that, or your laptop’s fan isn’t going to work - that will lead to performance issues or potentially damage your laptop

    • signofzetaEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      My T470 worked just fine without thinkfan installed. Is that just something model-specific?

      • intelisense
        10·
        8 months ago

        It’ll work, but the fan won’t speed up when the CPU is hot.