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I'm relatively unfamiliar with Linux. I'm getting a ThinkPad T460 and want to install Mint on it. Is there anything about the T460 I should know? (lemmy.world)

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It's probably been 15 years since I've used Linux and Mint seems to be the recommended distro for people who aren't all that familiar with Linux like me, but I didn't know if there was anything I should know with this ThinkPad model that anyone is familiar with. My searching around shows people saying everything from it was painless to install to they had tons of issues and I have no idea how common either one is.

So any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo#Lenovo

This page from the Arch Wiki might be a good start

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is Arch similar enough to Mint to make any issues there the same?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd say for the most part. The Arch Wiki does a decent job at least pointing users in the right direction. The path to solving it may be a bit different. For example you may need to find the equivalent package on Mint and it might have a different name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Great, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

From what I've seen, hardware issues usually come from the hardware manufacturer and not the distro. For example on my t480 the CPU is perma throttled because intel didn't release a patch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you change your bios settings to performance? I had the same problem but changing both bios and power management to performance finnaly let my CPU boost to advertised speeds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also t480? This is the only solution I found online, but I didn't try it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Also t480 - i5-8350u CPU.

My process was to update firmware with fwupd -> change TLP to performance(depending on desktop environment you may have a battery life settings panel) -> reboot into bios and change power settings to performance.

Ran a benchmark and my CPU was running at full power when it was limiting itself to 2Ghz before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That is not good news. I do not want a perma throttled CPU. I'm not going to be doing anything that would require it. So I hope the T460 doesn't have that problem.