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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/Drachenherz on 2026-05-14 22:42:21+00:00.

You cannot imagine how happy I am. Got meself a Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 AMD 4650u as an early birthday present.

After botching a first fedora install on this machine (don't ask...), I installed LM 22.3 on it. It was nice, but two things were lacking: Proper scaling support (my eyes aren´t the best anymore to 1080p at 100%...) and better (out of the box) battery management.

So I made a backup of the mint install to an external HDD (I love foxclone) and installed Fedora 44 KDE. Again.

And it works. Like a charm. Love the power management and battery functions. Scaling works properly. And Fedora is rock solid on this machine. (And also thanks to snapper, I can tinker around with the device without worrying about nuking my system.) I love how everything basically just... works.

I'm really eager to get to know this distro better, I even started the Linux Foundation free "Introduction to Linux" online course. To really do my "homerwork" during the course (getting to know and how to use bash), I installed VirtualBox and installed Fedora 44 *workstation* on the T14. (Yo dawg I heard you like Linux so we put some Linux into your Linux!)

So I also get to know Fedora Workstation a little bit better, and getting used to it's minimalistic approach. (I installed "Dash to Dock" already in the VM - can´t live without my dock anymore, it's become essential for me).

Looking forward to tomorrow: I'll upgrade the T14 a bit with an 16GB 3200MHz RAM bar, and it also get´s a brand new battery. The old one is at 59%, time to replace it.