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by blodkorv 1174 days ago
I have a thinkpad X1 bought in 2019(idk which gen) its horrible as a linux laptop, mainly because of the scaling issues. But also the touchpad is not good. Its quite bad in windows but even worse in linux. The battery get empty much faster in linux as well.

Another annoying thing about it that has nothing to do with the os is that the trackpoint randomly makes the pointer "drift" and theres nothing you can do when that happens except to wait for it to stop. It seems to be sort of a common thing on thinkpads and i have gotten lenovo to replace my trackpoint and its still an issue.

My next laptop will be a dell or something.

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Same here, I have spent an INORDINATE amount of hours trying to fix this exact same trackpad issue on two generations of Thinkpad X-series, and it just. doesn't. work. My next linux laptop will be a Framework.
I've got an X1 Gen6, got it in 2018. It still works. I have never had the mouse pointer drift problem.