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   James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 07:40:40 JST James Just James

   Trying to do my part to encourage more Linux over M$ usage. Got two friends to buy Lenovo w/ Fedora pre-installed for their new laptops.

   TL;DR: totally unstable garbage. Hangs all the time. In dmesg:

   amdgpu 0000:c4:00.0: amdgpu: MES failed to respond to msg=MISC (WAIT_REG_MEM)
   amdgpu 0000:c4:00.0: amdgpu: failed to reg_write_reg_wait
   amdgpu 0000:c4:00.0: amdgpu: MES ring buffer is full.

   We only win when the quality is better! These two users are annoyed they spent their money on not working.

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     Rui Seabra (ruiseabra@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 07:40:38 JST Rui Seabra

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     @purpleidea
     Well, shame on Lenovo for selling crap hardware with bad support for the included software stack, rather than good and appropriate hardware, then.

     I can hardly see how that is the fault of the Fedora community. :)

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     James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 07:41:59 JST James Just James

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     • Rui Seabra

     @RuiSeabra I never said it was Fedora's fault. But I do know it's damaging the Fedora brand. I would really hope the Fedora partnership people who work with Lenovo would be polishing this a bit more. I'm spending social capital here to switch people away from Windows and this is not helping :/

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     Rui Seabra (ruiseabra@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 12:53:30 JST Rui Seabra

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     @purpleidea
     To me, it reads like that in the undertone of the post, other members may feel the same. I'm glad that's not your intention. :)

     I feel your pain, undue blame is frequent in newbies, I've been there.

     Remember that if Lenovo didn't do an actual effort of testing, Windows would crash a lot more.

     So it's definitely Lenovo's fault, AFAICT, maybe tell them to complain to Lenovo, as they should make sure to sell a Laptop with adequate hardware and drivers for the bundled software.