[eat_veggies]

I put linux on my x1 carbon (gen 5) and it works well enough. Some notes, in no particular order:

* great keyboard

* kind of shit trackpad

* trackpoint is pretty nice at least

* hidpi is a pain in the ass to set up

..* looks great once you get it working

..* some apps like Zoom refuse to scale up, so the buttons are tiny

* light weight

* really long battery

[jseliger]

kind of shit trackpad

Relevant, recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547817

[spleeder]

Setting the QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 env var does the trick for Zoom on my end.

[eat_veggies]

Thanks, I'll try this out next time I need to video call!

edit: good stuff, it works!

[smueller1234]

I can confirm all of these (didn't have any setup issues though since it's a pre-configured company laptop).

Overall, a really nice laptop (except wtf is that terrible trackpad doing in there?). Didn't find any compatibility problems except the fingerprint scanner. But I didn't try very hard.

[xur17]

Have you found a good way to adjust the trackpoint speed on your X1 Carbon? It's way too slow on my gen 4, and way too fast on my gen 6 (even after configuring it to max speed on the gen 4).

[eat_veggies]

I'm not sure if what I did was the normal way to do it, but:

`xinput list` gave me my trackpoint device's name. Mine is "TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint"

`xinput list-props "TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint"` gives a list of properties you can change.

"libinput Accel Speed (302):" looked promising, so I changed it via:

`xinput set-prop "TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint" 302 0.2` where 302 is the code given in parentheses above, and 0.2 is the speed.

[RaleyField]

Google Superfish. Seriously.

[vertwo128]

Just did it. It says the Thinkpad line was never affected. Seriously.

[RaleyField]

That is utterly irrelevant. You can't trust company that showed malicious intent or wanton disregard to not screw with other products.