Lenovo ThinkPad P53

Installing Linux to Thinkpads is mostly easy. Even more so, since Lenovo started official support for Linux on a number of systems.

The installation using a Gentoo installation media works perfectly as described in the Handbook.

Almost all of the P53 hardware is supported in kernel or by installing additional drivers from Portage. Due to the muxed GPU hardware and the decent IOMMU layout of the P53, this laptop is also a good candidate for advanced configurations like GPU passthrough in QEMU.

CPU
It is recommended to enable the microcode update support as explained in Intel microcode.

Bluetooth
It is recommended to globally enable the  USE Flag in order to make use of this feature it in your system and software.

Intel Firmware
You may also want to include the propretary DMC firmware for the GPU.

Nvidia Drivers
In order to make use of the more powerful Nvidia card, you'll need to install the propretary drivers.