Ubuntu 18.04 + Lenovo X1 Carbon (6G)

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Everything in General Just Worked Out-of-the-Box

In my previous open letter to Apple, I mentioned that the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon running Ubuntu was a wonderful candidate for a Macbook replacement. So while I am waiting for the late summer hardware event, I decided to do some hands on exploration to prove my theory with some solid day-to-day usage testing on a 6th gen X1 Carbon myself.

The installation went off without a hitch and everything except for the fingerprint reader just worked right out of the box. To my surprise, even the touch screen worked. The only thing that I didn’t check was the SD/Sim slot which I read somewhere that it also doesn’t work out-of-the-box. No big deal for me though as I don’t like using fingerprint readers and have no need for sim/nano SD support. I then connected the HDMI port to my external display and that worked wonderfully as well.

Battery Life

Battery life was left little to be desired out-of-box as expected but nothing that can’t be tuned to an acceptable level of performance by doing the following: