Re: Fedora Laptop?

[Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 11, 2022, at 12:39, George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> I also have 2 firmware updates which don't seem to install.

Vendors selling laptops with linux preinstalled often add new drivers that

are not yet in the upstream kernel.   You may be able to find them at

a vendor download site, but some work may be needed to install them.

You may want to install Lenovo's Fedora 33 (e.g., on an external 

drive or dual boot) to get Lenovo special support for updates.   This will also 

help you identify missing drivers and determine which bugs were

present with F33.. 

That may be the case with some vendors (I’m looking at you Dell + Ubuntu) but Lenovo works directly with Red Hat and Fedora to get their devices certified and any drivers upstreamed and included in Fedora kernels (and eventually RHEL too). 

Props to the Lenovo and Red Hat engineers who make this happen. 

--

Jonathan Billings

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