Linux on the T470s

April 14, 2017

Trying to find a modern laptop that works well with Linux is quite difficult. I seemed like for a long time as long as you avoided the baddies like Broadcom networking controllers you were able to find a decent machine to hack on. Then awful technology like optimus appeared and, made life a lot more difficult for the Linux adventurer. Things got even worse when optimus moved from a hwmux (bios toggle) to direct frame-buffer access, then manufactures started arbitrarily putting some video connectors on the dGPU and some on the iGPU. ...