The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop

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I'm always surprised on r/linuxhardware (another good resource) the number of people that ask questions without doing basic searches online. I'd definitely second the Arch and Gentoo Wikis as excellent community maintained resources. Also:

* https://linux-hardware.org/ - this is where uploaded `hw-probe` results are collected and shared. It's easy to search for your exact model #/SKU and get a very detailed compatibility list, eg: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=6677ca6be8

* Reddit is actually one of the best general sources for people talking about Linux compatibility issues, especially as most laptop OEMs don't have dedicated Linux support forums (only Framework and Lenovo do, AFAIK), so searching for "[model] linux report/review/compatibility/issues reddit" is usually a good sanity check as well.

* Oftentimes doing a search for the exact model and adding "linux bug" is the best way to get any bug reports that are in kernel, distro, or package trackers.

* IMO Notebookcheck is the best general/objective review site for laptops. While there are usually some more in-depth reviews that might give additional color on a laptop, the Notebookcheck reviews cover most of the important points with some very objective, and more importantly, standardized tests, whose results can be compared against their gigantic database of other reviews. Important things like screen quality (brightness, color gamut, PWM flicker), speaker quality (I find the percentile vs other laptops most useful there), and power usage (most importantly IMO, their WiFi v1.3 rundown test). While it's not the easiest to link to, they allow you to add comparisons to arbitrary laptop models for any of their numerical results. It's fantastic.

* Lastly, for Linux laptop compatibility in particular, I've found there a lot of documents in single developer/user's wikis, or as Github repos/gists writing up their experiences. I've done two of them myself since I found the other ones I've found to be so useful: https://github.com/lhl/linuxlaptops

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