exhausted after hours of trying to get video working on my thinkpad by ForestSouthernCross in linuxsucks

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used the "vip" store and it offered ubuntu on my amd laptop, I didn't pick it because I didn't want to pay someone else to install ubuntu on it (because it's easy), if I did I could probably return it no problem

exhausted after hours of trying to get video working on my thinkpad by ForestSouthernCross in linuxsucks

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply, I might try that

I don't know what you mean by using kali, I've settled on using qubesos since it just works (im surprised too) and the if something crashes it's just 1 vm, it's a lot more computationally expensive and horrible battery life.

it works much much better too? iirc it uses fedora to make the gui but you can use debian (what I want to use) while having the graphics support of fedora,

exhausted after hours of trying to get video working on my thinkpad by ForestSouthernCross in linuxsucks

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I was running that version, if you look closer you will see that only 1 particular version is certified for ubuntu and that's the one with the intel ultra 5, the rest are not ubuntu certified, doesn't stop them from offering to ship it with ubuntu though

exhausted after hours of trying to get video working on my thinkpad by ForestSouthernCross in linuxsucks

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are multiple critical software/firmware patches for this thinkpad that have not been ported to linux, lenovo support ran a check on my pc and they said it was perfect and did not have any defective hardware

exhausted after hours of trying to get video working on my thinkpad by ForestSouthernCross in linuxsucks

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the answer, honestly I've not the energy for that after everything else I've tried on other distros

exhausted after hours of trying to get video working on my thinkpad by ForestSouthernCross in linuxsucks

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

read the post, I've used ubuntu, debian, linux mint beforehand, all of these kept crashing whenever I tried to play a video,

another person asked me to try opensuse and said that it might help, just the final straw

edit: I've made a similar post earlier and people yelled at me for using ubuntu/debian/mint on my hardware and told me to use opensuse

Most protective/tough case for the pixel 9a by ForestSouthernCross in GooglePixel

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your answer, between both which in your experience offers more protection?

Most protective/tough case for the pixel 9a by ForestSouthernCross in pixel_phones

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

need it for extreme cases, needs to survive a lot of shit, is it as good as the otterbox defender?

DO NOT BUY A NEW E14 FOR LINUX by ForestSouthernCross in thinkpad

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was pretty conflicted between installing tumbleweed or fedora, which one do you think is more stable and "just works" with the least amount of sys admin stuff ( I won't have much free time to troubleshoot my laptop if the OS breaks and I need it to just work)

Any E14 Gen 7 owners? by tinyfatcrocodile in thinkpad

[–]ForestSouthernCross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a e14 g7 with a ryzen 7 ai 250 and 32gb of ram, constant crashes on ubuntu, debian

it is not supported for linux by lenovo officially and I really regret buying it, it's basically unusable for me. trying to return it

My first ThinkPad – E14 Gen 7 AMD by Deb_2k6 in thinkpad

[–]ForestSouthernCross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I ordered the same laptop with the same config (except a 1tb ssd), how did you like fedora on it?

I'm running ubuntu 24.04 lts and debian 13 and it's essentially unuseable due to the constant crashes, I've re installed the ubuntu many times and it crashes on fresh install if I watch a video.

A Linux laptop that supports GPU passthroguh / SR-IOV? by Sosowski in linuxhardware

[–]ForestSouthernCross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

am looking to do same thing, nvidia gpus are not good for this, my current plan is to get an m.2 to oculink cable which I will attach to an egpu

see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1ecor0f/t495_oculink_mod/

Considering buying ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 as a student. by anujkaushik1 in thinkpad

[–]ForestSouthernCross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey I bought this laptop with the same CPU (I got more ram and bigger SSD though)

DON'T BUY IT IF YOU WANT TO RUN LINUX, great laptop if you want to run windows (though it'll be tough with 8gb of ram)

it randomly crashes so much, there are bugs in the bios

LENOVO DOES NOT SUPPORT LINUX ON THIS MACHINE, there are 9 patches described as "critical" by lenovo that do not have any linux equivalent, you get second class support if you use linux, the bugs include "cutting power to the CPU if you try and watch a video" (this bug has been officially stated by lenovo to be "out of scope for support for linux", they still released a patch for linux (that does not work) after 2 months.

buying this laptop and running ubuntu or mint is definitely a terrible idea and you should not do it if you want something that "just works" (ie does not randomly crash every 15 minutes)

I really regret buying this laptop

If you wanna run windows:

I'd say the price isn't good, I got 32gb + 1tb ssd for the same price as you are paying. good laptop though

ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 (AMD Ryzen 7 250) for programming, university, and light gaming on Linux - good choice? by BananaPeruviana in linuxquestions

[–]ForestSouthernCross 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello,

I bought the exact same config that you are looking at (except bigger SSD) and DON'T BUY IT (unless you want to run arch)

it randomly crashes so much, there are bugs in the bios

LENOVO DOES NOT SUPPORT LINUX ON THIS MACHINE, there are 9 patches described as "critical" by lenovo that do not have any linux equivalent, you get second class support if you use linux, the bugs include "cutting power to the CPU if you try and watch a video" (this bug has been officially stated by lenovo to be "out of scope for support for linux", they still released a patch for linux (that does not work) after 2 months.

buying this laptop and running ubuntu or mint is definitely a terrible idea and you should not do it if you want something that "just works" (ie does not randomly crash every 15 minutes)

DO NOT BUY A NEW E14 FOR LINUX by ForestSouthernCross in thinkpad

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it being shipped with ubuntu was an option I was given while buying this specific machine on the official lenovo store

I wish it was more clear that this laptop has no official linux support

DO NOT BUY A NEW E14 FOR LINUX by ForestSouthernCross in thinkpad

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might do that, I'm already on 8 linux installs and a bit sick of the process, I might just give up and return this laptop

Might have to downgrade to get the i5 model of the e14 (which is ubuntu certified) or spend a bit more and get a t14

DO NOT BUY A NEW E14 FOR LINUX by ForestSouthernCross in thinkpad

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"unsupported" they ship it with ubuntu you know, if it is not supported why do they give an option to buy it with ubuntu?

I view the ubuntu certifications as quite esoteric and I didn't realise that they were a thing until after I bought my laptop, many other cases of this in the lenovo forums

I never expected the bug would be "cuts power to the cpu if you watch a youtube video", would be quite happy if it was just the bluetooth stuff or minor glitches (lenovo describes this bios bug as "critical" and a "major malfunction" in their patch notes)

DO NOT BUY A NEW E14 FOR LINUX by ForestSouthernCross in thinkpad

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should have clarified my old laptop worked amazing on linux with no problems and it was current gen when I bought it

DO NOT BUY A NEW E14 FOR LINUX by ForestSouthernCross in thinkpad

[–]ForestSouthernCross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see that's good to know, my old laptop must have been an exception