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Picked up a Thinkpad T14s Gen 5 (Intel) today. Intel Core Ultra 5 135U, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD. It even has an NPU.

I went through the Windows 11 setup to see if there were firmware upgrades that could only be installed from Windows. Then I installed Fedora Silverblue on it to skip having to deal with Windows on a daily basis.

Everything seems to work, even the fingerprint reader. Now to figure out if the NPU is accessible from Linux and what to do with it.

#thinkpad #fedora #linux #windows

Two Lenovo Thinkpad T14s half open, back to back.
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The Windows setup flow was horrible and slow. It took forever for it to download updates and install -- it happened twice! Once during the initial setup and once after the system came up and Windows Update went to work.
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@Justin

Thanks! Forgot to write that after I got Fedora installed, it had firmware upgrades ready for the machine. So nice.

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I believe ThinkPads are officially supported for Linux by Lenovo: therefore you shouldn't need to go through Windows setup for anything.

This apparently isn't true of their other lines of laptops though, and theory and practice may differ.

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@fdavies93

I discovered that during the Fedora updates. Thanks for the note. I forgot to mention this in my post.

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@g_boccia

It was available locally and had the specs I wanted (mainly 32GB of RAM since it's soldered on).

@Giacinto Boccia