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IIRC Mint 21.3 had a ~~touchpad driver~~ keyboard issue on some Thinkpads. It looked like a simple fix if you are effected tho.
Installing Mint on my Thinkpad Yoga was easier than installing Windows. Everything worked right out of the box.
Edit: keyboard not touchpad.
Thanks. You don't happen to know if there's a list of the models that have that issue and/or a page on how to fix it, do you?
Oops, it was a keyboard issue that affected Thinkpads. It's in the release notes https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_virginia.php
Thanks!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo#Lenovo
This page from the Arch Wiki might be a good start
Is Arch similar enough to Mint to make any issues there the same?
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.
Great, thanks!
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.
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
Also t480? This is the only solution I found online, but I didn't try it out.
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.
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.