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by vassy 4677 days ago
I paid £1800 for the Lenovo X1 Carbon because I'd thought it was the best ultrabook at that time. Installing Ubuntu on it resulted in problems with: volume and brightness settings, trackpad, hibernation, fingerprint reader, mounting my NAS drive.

I don't have it anymore because I got robbed. Although I'm a Linux enthusiast, I ended up replacing it with the 2013 Macbook Air, because I don't want to pay a premium price for a product that I can't use 100%.
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papaf 4677 days ago
Quote from an Ubuntu user with an X1:

The Lenovo X1 Carbon is a dream for Linux. If you want to run Linux on an ultrabook, I cannot recommend the Carbon more highly.

http://www.inaccuratedesign.com/2012/10/22/Linux-on-the-X1-C...

Fedora is also OK apparently: http://sysconfig.org.uk/2013/05/fedora-18-on-lenovo-thinkpad...

Arch too: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1

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