It's 2012: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend
It's 2016: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend
It's 2020: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend
It's 2024: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend
If that's too much hassle, just run WSL2 on Windows.
In 2020 I made it work for me with 'systemctl hybrid-sleep'. Audio worked most of the time, although sometimes I had problems with the Thinkpad plugged into an actual docking stations with additional ports.
Also Linux has issues with Bluetooth :)
In my experience, those "for dummies" distros are the best to not have those kind of issues, like Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, or Elementary, but with so much closed source in hardware manufacturers it's normal to the community to don't be able to give a solution in a short time period.
[1]: It has dual Intel and AMD hybrid graphics, so it's understandable to some degree.
Update found a dmesg. I am used to obsd dmesgs and am probably reading this one wrong. It looks like there is an on chip video stream accelerator(qcom-venus) that is not initializing correctly. is the camera attached directly to this? or does it act as an accelerator for any video stream?
https://github.com/altacus/lenovo-x13s/blob/main/dmesg-6.5.y...
well, shit, that's better than my Thinkpad X1 on Ubuntu where they never worked
I actually came very close to getting that exact same setup (from the Amazon Refreshed store) but waved it off because I could not get Chrome (not -ium, I mean the real one) nor Zoom which for doing worky stuff is "well, good luck". Yes, I'm aware one can join zoom meetings from the browser but with eyes toward that "chromIUM" part I felt it would be really, really rolling the dice, and that's before I knew that the webcam doesn't work
there have been a few other threads on this, but it's great to have a more recent version: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thinkpad+x13s
