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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    8 months ago

    @FlyingSquid
    Hi,
    congratulations
    I am a linux user on thinkpad since decades: T40 (2004), T42, T420, T450, T480 and now as I am retired, I bought a T470… still happy
    About firmware, the T470 runs with ubuntu and firmware is updated when needed. I don’t know with Mint.
    be happy with the 🐧
    @linux