It's surprisingly difficult to find options for laptops shipping #Fedora or any other supported non-ChromeOS flavor of #Linux from the #Lenovo website.
@vwbusguy
I didn't find the option when buying recently and shortly after was told by #Lenovo support that they don't support #Linux.
This was a #Legion9 which I've had for about a month.
I'm dual booting #Ubuntu 24 and it is good enough. Good enough that I've not bothered looking for any drivers yet and loving the super fast development.
The efficiency boost is honestly mind blowing. And that is with so many keystrokes to wrap my head around. Absolutely worth the money and lets me work at least four times as fast as with the previous setups.
Would I have liked to keep on using Linux? Yes but at this point if one is doing more than just browsing the web and reading E-Mails it is very hard to recommend.
@WestphalDenn I just bought a #Lenovo#Legion9 and had the opposite experience.
I keep hearing people say things about #Linux v #Windows which aren't true, and in a recent discussion they turned out to be out of date opinions from someone not using it.
Obviously you were, but I take issue that it's only good for basic tasks. I do all sorts and it just gets better while Windows degrades and spys.
W11 cursor was jerky, sending all cicks home. Noticeably faster when I switched to #Ubuntu 24.
Five days since my #Legion9#i9 laptop arrived and I put #Ubuntu24 on it, then my data, dev tools etc.
Status:
most things just work: Canon printer, disk mounting, USB devices etc and I figured out how to configure the 🎄 keyboard/led modes. Minor foibles like Dash-to-panel settings missing sometimes.
Boy is it fast. LLM answers instant (no CUDA yet), build flies etc.
internal speakers not working but I have also a Bluetooth speaker. Trackpad too, so bought USB mouse+TP.
I could just sit here watching my 32 cores in htop.
The #Legion9 is snappy. I'll try it on some LLMs when my mobile b/b manages to download them and the CUDA drivers. That part is still slow. (I'm off-grid and not paying Elon for Starlink).
I have had a new laptop for a day, and it's shit-hot!
Clearly aimed at gamers but the best spec I could find for development.
I went #Lenovo#Legion9 (max), rather than #Dell for the first time because the spec, and the fact my last Dell is faulty after 6 years (whereas my previous 15yr Dell is still perfect).
Lenovo support is poor, outsourced, unhelpful and knows less than I do.
Windows 11 was the only option, so no Ubuntu drivers. But ok, except the trackpad so far, USB devices on order.