Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 8th generation

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Lenovo has announced wide support for numerous of its systems. Amongst them the Lenovo "ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8".

Quoting Igor Bergman, Vice President of PCSD Software & Cloud at Lenovo, "[...] Our goal is to remove the complexity and provide the Linux community with the premium experience that our customers know us for. This is why we have taken this next step to offer Linux-ready devices right out of the box [...]".

This public statement, made 23rd of September 2020, is to the author of this article, a milestone in Linux hardware and laptop history and can only be answered with a wholehearted "Thank you Lenovo!".

These are the authors notes on getting Gentoo fully functional on the Lenovo X1 Carbon, 8th generation. The Arch Linux wiki pages for the 7th and 8th generation of this laptop had been a great source of information. As well as ThinkWiki.

Accessories
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Installation
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Firmware
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Kernel
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Emerge
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Configuration
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Troubleshooting
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