ThinkPad P1 Gen 2

rage inducing bugs. This. I recently tried Ubuntu on my Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 2. On paper, the perfect Linux device: Intel Coffee Lake Refresh, not to new not too old (good 5 years), workstation grade. Turns out the touchpad is unusable due to a bug that's known since years, making the scroll speed

Like, ThinkPads don't normally go bad, but it is a pain in the ass when they go. I had a P15 Gen 1, which as flawless. Sold and god an P1 Gen 2 with the 4k screen, and problems were constant. Battery life, was mediocre but that was the 4k OLED fault, but the major problem came in a way of BIOS updat

I mean I have cheaper laptops from 20yrs ago that still work. For $600 I would not buy a X1 Extreme Gen 2 (which is basically the same as my P1 Gen 2). You can go to BestBuy or whatever and buy a $600 brand new Lenovo laptop that isn't a Thinkpad that will spank the hell out of the X1E Gen 2. It won

I have a P1 Gen 2 and I agree with this, however, Vantage does not work that well for these older machines. I've had to go to support.lenovo.com and manually download newer drivers.

Then try to get it fixed by Lenovo. What do you expect Reddit to do? EDIT: Though very much YMMV. I have tried to get minor gripes with screens fixed first on my Dell XPS 15 9560, then my ThinkPad P1 Gen 2. It never really got solved. But it did take a lot of calling and service visits.

I went T60 -> T420 -> P1 Gen 2 -> P16s Gen 1 (2022). While I liked the keyboards on my previous ThinkPads, I find myself preferring keyboards on my various work-issued laptops (Apple, Dell, HP) over the one on my current ThinkPad. It's not just about the shallow travel, it's also the weird unevennes

my OLED display is defective but while I've had it here for almost 2 months evaluating it, I found they forgot to remove the film from the thermal pad on the factory installed NVMe. My touchpad doesn't scroll like every other laptop at the store today including my Thinkpad P1 Gen 2, so its also most

The OLED screen also uses more battery. So if that isn't a concern and you will be at 50%+, the OLED might work well for you. I also keep my machines a long time. My P1 Gen 2 was new from Lenovo, so maybe its 8 years old now. I don't have faith the OLED screen will last that long.

Lol you're regarded. A fresh install of Ubuntu LTS on a ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 (ca 2021 Workstation model, Intel, basically perfect for Linux) has the issue right out of the box: Scroll speed hyper fast/ unusable touchpad lags on initial move due to FOSS-good-enough-attitude