Now checking to see if it can ship w/ Linux by default.
edit: The answer appears to be "no." Also, searching Lenovo.com for "T14 gen 5" yields: "2676 Result For ‘t14 gen 5.'" Lenovo should really work on their search functionality.
It was bound to have an effect in the industry, as tech-savvy people select and recommend them simply because they're the least broken option.
Others are too disposable; made to break rather than last.
For laptops, try T430: it can last for decades.
Then they can still decide later if they themselves want to cell it with Linux late on.
I think currently they are down to just the Carbon X1 being orderable with Linux which likely speaks to the actual demand for Linux vs their cost to support it.
Is it? Isn't it like 1/1000th their sales, one being a global brand and everything, the other a niche product?
> The new ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 has a redesigned keyboard with swapped FN/Ctrl keys
Having the Fn on the left appears to be quite an emotional subject for some people.
The copilot key seems to replace the menu or prtscr key between the alt and ctrl on the right.
TBH it's weird to hear this so often. Macs also have the same "Fn on the far left" layout as ThinkPads and Macs/ThinkPads have basically won in the tech space. I got a Dell work laptop and I thought this wouldn't be a big deal, but having used a ThinkPad or a Mac for 20 years I couldn't adjust (which is wild, because I got over Neovim's D/dd abominable betrayal in a few days).
The annoying thing about soldered RAM on Thinkpads is that it can't be disabled.
So if the onboard RAM dies so does your laptop. Even if the laptop has a SODIMM slot.
