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I have had a Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U based Thinkpad T495 since 2019, running Fedora.

I can't remember many full system lockups, but there may have been a few. I ran Steam games on it for a year or two before switching those to a different system. But I ran a number of Linux native or Proton-based games and it was the best performing system I had for a while.

What I do recall is that OpenCL barely worked and could get into strange "stuck" states only resolved by rebooting. I could still use the windowing system for a bit, but some kernel calls seemed to begin hanging. It was very disappointing, as I knew this machine had a lot of FLOPS I could have put to use if the OpenCL drivers worked.

One quirk I never resolved in Linux is that the mouse pointer would seem to jump around sometimes while typing. I haven't seen this on any other Thinkpad and it seemed to persist across multiple different Fedora installations. No adjustments to the "mouse" controls menu seemed to make a difference.

I recently started using a Ryzen 7 Pro 7840U based Thinkpad P14s. It doesn't seem to have either of these two issues, but I haven't used it for very long. I find it to be an impressive machine so far.