Which Linux desktop distributions work reliably on laptops (say Lenovo)?

Question

linux

Ubuntu is getting buggier from version to version (however, I haven’t been following it for the last two years, has the trend changed?). Mint - not everything is smooth either. Manjaro - the most massive according to Distrowatch (it looks like they just tweaked the counter) - this is generally a hand-face.zhpg. Centos - everyone has heard about the recent fiasco. Debian - everything in the stable version is very old. Only here it is not necessary about crooked hands - you can put it on branded hardware, and it will limp out of the box.

The question is - which distributions are massive (because then there is someone to report bugs to) and still reliable?

Answer 1

Absolutely none. Linux, even on desktop computers, is not viable and unstable.
You can try your luck with Ubuntu.

Answer 2

Pop!_OS definitely works on them https://system76.com/laptops

Answer 3

Almost anyone, if you do not start an epic with a graphical interface.

Answer 4

Here it is more important what desktop environment you will use and what the laptop will be used for in general.

Answer 5

From personal experience. An old Lenovo 560, after installing an SSD and increasing the memory to 8GB, works pretty well under Xubuntu 20 LTS. On Mint (with xfce) it slowed down unacceptably.

Answer 6

Debian - everything in the stable version is very old.

Are these memories from 10-15 years ago or just gleaned from the web?
It must be placed.

Answer 7

Which desktop Linux distributions work reliably on laptops

None. On laptops, where half of the firewood is in binary blobs, they never worked reliably - if they somehow work there at all, this is already a plus.
Mint, bubunta, debian - all of this, of course, you can try, but no one will give a guarantee that it will work ...

Answer 8

I probably won’t list everything, but Ubuntu and Manjaro feel great on my Lenovo Thinkpad T540, the first is based on Debian, the second on Arch. Manjaro had to be fine-tuned with a file to get the hybrid graphics to work properly.

Answer 9

It usually works in reverse.

What laptop models does the X distribution run on?

Answer 10

On Thinkpads, I don’t remember which ones, but relatively fresh ones, I used Fedora quite successfully. Even the fingerprint scanner worked sometimes. Now I'm sitting under a fedora on an HP Envy 13. The fun begins if your laptop has two video cards, and the battery consumption is not at all screwy. Otherwise, ok, nothing falls apart, except for iron.