I purchased a new laptop in early January 2022, after much deliberation it turned out to be a Ryzen Powered Lenovo Thinkpad E14. Read my first impressions and review of this Linux on Thinkpad. The AMD Ryzen R5 5600U is a snappy processor, and so far I am happy with it so far. In a way,this beings things back to a full circle: My first laptop back in 2001 was also a Thinkpad.
Under the Hood: Lenovo Thinkpad E14 Ryzen Laptop
Update March 2025 : Under the great laptop switcharoo, I have replaced the operating system on this laptop with Windows 11, and my wife uses it now.
I purchased this machine from amazon. It machine came pre installed with Windows 11, and I disliked it right away. I partitioned the 512 odd GB NVMe drive into three partitions of almost equal size, and installed Manjaro Linux on one of the partitions. This is my first ever AMD Ryzen powered laptop, and my first experience using Linux on a new Thinkpad. I have not experienced major issues except for the file manager for KDE desktop (Dolphin) which consumes a lot of RAM and crashes often. That would be the browser issue and not necessarily operating system issue.
Update February 2022: I replaced Manjaro Linux with “Atlantis” version of Endeavour Os, which is relatively more stable. I had the occasional memory leaks with Firefox, but adding 1 GB of Swap seems to have resolved the issue for now. I plan to up the RAM on this system to 24 GB from existing 8 GB, and add a 500 GB NVMe disk. Both pieces of hardware will be pulled out of the “Kitchen Sink” desktop. This upgrade will change some of the below results. This post will be updated with a more detailed review at that time.
