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No proprietary drivers are needed, but some fine-tuning might be in place. Have s look here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T480
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You start your comment with an @ to their username, and your domain name ends on “-stodon”...
Are you posting to Lemmy from Mastodon? Is that possible?
EDIT Also, OP, check out Archwiki, that's a great source! (in this case you can just view this person's link, but you can treat AW as a public Linux library in the future)
You start your comment with an @ to their username, and your domain name ends on “-stodon”...
Are you posting to Lemmy from Mastodon? Is that possible?
It mostly is! Mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities like they're users and then it shows as toots on their feed, and the comments look like replies.
That's awesome!
Darn cool, had no idea. Will test this
No, you just install the OS and make sure everything works. If you find a specific device not working, then start looking for answers. Linux isn't like Windows in that you have to install drivers for every device individually. Most are in the kernel already, so you just install and go.
I have a t480, and use debian. Had to install proprietary drivers for the wifi
I have a t480 and didn't need to do that
That should be included by default in the Linux kernel, excluding the fingerprint driver, as they're only Windows-compatible and would require contribution from someone. For the fingerprint, don't keep your hopes up - most of them simply won't work, thanks to them being manufactured mostly by Shenzhen Goodix, who are hardcore Windows simp.
However, if you're using a Linux-libre kernel, then that's a different story - most definitely, your WiFi drivers won't work, as it excludes nonfree drivers, so your two choices would be to wait for the driver to be included, or to switch to the original Linux kernel.
In the nonlibre kernel
Idk what's up with your fingerprint rant, but the drivers for that have been out for years. Not official ofc, but it works better than in windows.
The issue is that it's essentially useless because Linux has no support for any type of fingerprint reader, so you can maybe set up your DM to log you in.