ThinkPad P50

ThinkPads are generally considered to be goated in regards to Linux support. Mint should be perfectly fine because it's based on Ubuntu, and Canonical works with Lenovo to validate hardware compatibility. Don't know about specifically P50/P53, but they're usually good.

u/broncofan303, quite nice laptop you got there! Back in the day, when those were new, I was tempted to get one of those... those W Series Laptops were advertised as the 'Workstation' replacement as the old IBM Gen of 770 Series Laptops were marketed years prior. Unlike the 770 series, where there w

WWAN works fine on Windows, Linux is still iffy with the FCC locks on newer models, with some older Fibocom cards not working at all. Though for my personal experience, I bought my X1 Nano brand new from Lenovo with the Qualcomm X55 5G Modem, and have been using it on T-Mobile for the past 3 years,

I have a P50 but I can not for the live of my get the wlan drives working, the lenovo update tool says there is nothing missing. But is is still very nice

This probably isn't the best venue for this, might want to check a subreddit specifically for Linux or Linux_gaming. For what it's worth, Stalcraft and War Thunder have a Gold rating on ProtonDB. I would strongly suggest considering Linux Mint as it's the most straightforward out of the box, and it