That's great news. It looks like Fedora will be available on the P series (powerful workstations) and X1 Carbon. I hope it will soon be expanded to other laptops. I am really interested in T series with AMD Ryzen 4000 line (should be released later this year) and would love to avoid paying the Windows tax.
I just wonder if the fingerprint reader is finally supported on Linux. Also the LTE modem on my X1 Carbon (6th gen) has no support.
The fingerprint reader is not yet supported on 6th gen X1.I never tried to get the LTE modem working. Funnily, I didn't even realize that the slot existed for almost a year after purchase.
I don't know which model of fingerprint reader is in the 6th gen, but on the 7th gen, enabling the beta firmware made it work perfectly.
$ fwupdmgr enable-remote lvfs-testing
If you temporarily enable, apply the Prometheus fingerprint updates then disable you won't need to worry about installing unstable firmware that will affect the system more widely.
Firmware metadata has not been updated for 30 days and may not be up to date.
Update now? (Requires internet connection) [y|N]: y
Fetching metadata https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware-testing.xml.gz
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Fetching signature https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware-testing.xml.gz.asc
Failed to update metadata for lvfs-testing: '48A6D80E4538BAC2' is not a valid signature
Yeah, the same question about the fingerprint support. There are plenty of decent modern laptops with fine Linux support, except the fingerprint. Well, I'm typing this from my XPS 9575 under Fedora 31 with 5.5 kernel where everything works, except, well, the fingerprint.
I just wonder if the fingerprint reader is finally supported on Linux. Also the LTE modem on my X1 Carbon (6th gen) has no support.