r/LinuxOnThinkpad • u/Lew_of member • 22d ago
Question Fedora?
Is fedora the best distro for my Thinkpad t460s with 20gb of ram? I asked Gemini and it's said is fedora for its compatibility, it's true? What is the best?
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u/MansSearchForMeming member 19d ago
Fedora on my X1C threw me for a loop at first because it couldn't connect to my wifi. The problem was that our router is using MAC filtering to whitelist devices and Fedora was randomizing the MAC address. I didn't know this was a thing and was never asked if I wanted to do it during setup. It was a frustrating hour figuring out what was going on. Hard to troubleshoot when you can't get online. I had had Mint, Win 10, Win 11 on that machine before and none of them defaulted to using a fake MAC.
It's been fine since then though.