[tarcio]

I recently asked work to replace my brand new Apple (with the infamous touch bar, 16GB, 256 SSD, etc etc) with a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th Gen.

Couldn't be happier.

Got a 16 GB, i7, 512 GB NVMe SSD (no NVidia).

Brilliant laptop, fantastic screen, keyboard and the trackpad is very good - although I gotta hand it over to Apple, they do a great trackpad.

What surprised me most of all is battery life. I usually get in to work at 8 AM and by 12 PM it still running (about 10% or so left). I do have a few things running:

- postgres, redis, elastic search and kibana on Docker containers - Terminator, VSCode, Firefox and Slack open all the time - From time to time rails and rspec (guard)

Couldn't recommend it more. I'm running Arch + i3.

Good luck

[hazz99]

How hard was it to get the various peripherals working? Things like the trackpad, bluetooth etc.I've had a lot of difficulty getting Linux working in the past, and it's stopped my from making the jump from my Macbook :(

[tarcio]

A breeze, actually. Got all working with arch without an issue. If you're going with Ubuntu I wouldn't even worry as they got most it covered pretty well.

The greatest thing about the latest Lenovo's and the Dell's is how good Linux support is these days.

If you really, really want to use Linux and is worried about peripherals, I might suggest you look into system76 - dedicated Linux laptops with a great distro (Ubuntu-based, named Pop OS) to match.

[kevinherron]

The only thing that doesn't work with my X1C6 on Linux is the fingerprint reader. Everything else works.

They fixed the sleep issue with a BIOS update. The only remaining issue is aggressive throttling of the CPU, which is fixed with this: https://github.com/erpalma/lenovo-throttling-fix