>get new thinkpad >decide to install a linux distro. >nothing

Should have bought a Macbook Pro, retard.

Which

>>61210573
You have to be +80 IQ to use Linux, Use Windows instead Jamal.

Newbs and retards prefer Linux Mint.

>>61210877

What's wrong with Mint?

>listened to g

Ignore neckbeard hobbyists, install Ubuntu. It just works.

>>61210919
Serious answer: It's insecure as fuck and the devs are shitty.
> https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/

Ubuntu isn't a bad idea. Fedora just werked on my thinkpad.

Please don't come here and bitch because you can't read man pages or wikis.

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>>61210573
This is bait. Every thinkpad I've ever owned has had 100% compatibility with GNU/Linux

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>>61210573
>new thinkpad
>new
I hope you mean "new to me"

>linux distro that just works
Linux is pretty much the opposite of "just works" but if you want the easier ones try Ubuntu or Antergos or Mint or something.

I'm dumb. I mean really dumb. and even I got arch installed on my x220 and got everything working ez pz. Eventually I got sick of it and wiped the SSD and installed 10 enterprise ltsb which is actually pretty nice with classic shell and after you neuter the botnet as much as possible

>>61211022

What's an excellent alternative to Mint?

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>>61211074
>neuter the botnet
That's the best joke I've heard on /g/ all night

>>61210919
Nothing. That's why newbs and retards prefer it.

>>61210919

Not leet enough for RMS fan club members.

>>61211120
Ubuntu

>>61211191

I'd miss Cinnamon.

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>>61210573
The idea that new Thinkpads have good Linux support is similar to the old "Macs are the best for art" maymay. Totally bogus.

>>61211232
Install Cinnamon

>>61211274
Absolute BS. And I say that as a thinkpad user of 12 years.

>>61211292

No. It would be like putting my girlfriend's clothes on my wife.

>>61210573
Linux is for neets and hobbyists pretty much. There is a reason professionals use iOS and windows.

>>61210573
>works for everybody else
>the problem can't possibly be me

You might have a point with the printer though. Linux did not work with my old Canon printer either. No drivers of any kind existed for it and I am not skilled enough to write my own.

>>61211274
Yeah... it's the other way around actually. Linux has good Thinkpad support.
Read a saying somewhere that fits nicely: hardware is made to support Windows. Linux is made to support hardware.

>>61210573
Nice bait faggot

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>>61210611
>he actually thinks he's smart for using linux

>>61211620
>he thinks having an IQ of 81 makes you smart

>>61211631
>he's a neet

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>Install Windows
>Realize I'm gonna be spending hours reconfiguring the OS and reinstalling all my programs

>Install NixOS loonix
>setup and mount partitions
>copy my config file
>nixos-install, reboot and everything is perfect

Shit's the future.
They just need to add a normie friendly GUI installer

>>61211362
Install Mint

>>61211029
>have X1 Carbon
>WiFi drivers don't work on Debian

>>61211680
What would make you think that?

>>61210573
>wtf, how is this acceptable, is there some linux distro that just works?
Yeah, Fedora. The distro that's actually fucking developed using ThinkPads.

>>61210573
Do your self a favor. Install arch. Spend the next the 6 months reading the wiki and on the forums. Enjoy using a system that you understand more completely and have better control over.

>>61211896
>Spend the next the 6 months reading the wiki and on the forums
such is the life of a neet

>Going from Ubuntu noob through your edgy hacker Arch/Gentoo phase then settling in to something that mostly just werks like Debian or Fedora

Such are the life phases of a linfag.

>>61212048
>then realise you justwant something that works and go back to windows/mac os

>>61210573
What distro did you try? Wife has a thinkpad, and Linux Mint works great on it.

>>61210573
Funny how you didn't mention which distro you tried to install. Have a sage buddy.

>>61212058
>But then you realize they're utter shit as well so you swear off all computers and live in a shack in the woods waiting for society to collapse

linux sucks you can't even $question

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>>61210573
>new Chinkpad
>nothing fucking works
That's why god made Macbook Pro, retard.
Haven't you been lurking long enough to learn that? God damn baka.

>>61211120
Kubuntu

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>>61212089
Fucking explained my life 9.7/10

>new job
>issued PC with windows
>4 hours in
>we are still getting things ready for uuu

I see why you don't need no degree to work in a java sweatshop, is this free money or what?

>still no distro that just works and is stable.

>>61210573
Use web print you dumb cock tumbler.

>>61211120
Lubuntu

>>61211740
You use linux, for one.

>>61210573
>doesn't say what linux disto
Check and bait.

>>61212857
Who said I use Linux?

>>61211725
Try installing a distro that isn't retarded about nonfree firmware.

>>61210573
go back to shilling lelgamx on espee you hue.
and, werks on muh machine.

>>61212087
The bait threads never do.

I use manjaro and everything worked perfectly on my laptop even the touchscreen ( dell xps 13 i7)

>>61210573
who is this seed accumulator

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>>61210593
No one likes apple products.

>>61211362
Kek.

>>61210573
>is there some linux distro that just works?

lol no, are you retarded?

>>61211074
Who is that semen demon?

>>61213893
Please do not talk this way about my mother.

Thank you,
Anon Anonson

>>61213893
Felicity Ellenton

>>61210573
Listen little tech illeterate fucktard.
How much time did you spend on Windows? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? You spent likely the half of your lifetime using Windows. You learnt, and now you know how to use it. Good.

And now you little shit, you think that you can learn how to use a linux distro like that? In some days?

I'm always pissed off by normalfags who think that they can learn in two days what they learnt in 2 years.

Installing a basic linux distro is fucking easy, it's not the distro's fault if you are a fucking mongoloid.

>>61210593
Fpwp

>>61212819
Debian.

>>61210573
>>get new thinkpad
>>decide to install a linux distro.
>>nothing fucking works
>>everything is broken
Hard to believe. Which distro?

>>worse batery life than on windows
that's normal

>>61211620
That lock is pretty simple

Shilling for Microkike should instantly earn you a ban.

>>61210573
sell it.
buy MBP.
get shit done.

>>61211120
Xubuntu

>>61210573
xubuntu is the one distro I come back to when I want things to JUST WERK. not to mention there's a solution for every problem you might encounter because its an ubuntu spinoff. also lots of software (arguably the most available)

>>61211120
Opensuse, Leap or Tumbleweed depends on what what gpu you have.
KDE recommended.

>>61211725
>>61213686
Or a distro with a kernel not from the Paleolithic

>>61210573

Any distro works if you aren't a fucking scrub.

>>61211022
You know that ubuntu had a site hacked too, right?

>>61218021
So did fedora.

>nothing works
Can you list what didn't work besides your printer? Also, which distro did you try? You might want a more bleeding edge distro if your hardware is new. Alternatively you could manually compile the latest kernel on whatever distro you want, but I don't even really like doing that.

>>61210573
>nothing fucking works
>everything is broken
Very specific pajeet, sounds legit.

how do I get better battery life with linux?

>>61211702
Is NixOS rolling release?

>>61219274
You install windows

Unless you used a meme distro, Thinkpads are pretty much the most supported machines on Linux. How do you even screw that up. If you're having problems with battery life, try installing TLP. Even has specific packages for Thinkpads. This alone nearly doubled my battery life.