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by petecox 3455 days ago
Intel do a quarterly release that fetches pre-built packages but it's only for Ubuntu/Fedora.

On my NUC, when new, I ran debian testing and had to pull in packages from debian experimental for Intel driver support.

So I'd suggest maybe switching to downstream Ubuntu might involve less trauma?

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/intel-graphics-update...
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Symmetry 3455 days ago
I can confirm that Ubuntu 16.04 works great on a T460p. The only issues I had were with the high resolution screen I chose and that was solved by finding the Gnome scaling options and also launching Chrome with '--force-device-scale-factor=1.4'.

EDIT: Oh, and swapping out the hard drive isn't super easy any more. It's a matter of watching a Youtube video then everything goes smoothly, rather than look at the bottom of the laptop and everything goes smoothly.

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