I also own a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen11. It's the most expensive laptop I've every owned. I will never buy another one.
Annoyingly but unimportantly, the paint started peeling off in year 1. That's not covered by warranty, according to Lenovo. The battery dropped to 80% in a year. Apparently that's not a warranty issue either.
It now throttles all the time. That's almost certainly due to overheating, possibly because of some fan issue, possibly because the interior of the fan is clogged - but I can't figure out how to get to it to clean it as it looks to require heat sink removal. It does have an absolutely gorgeous 4K OLED screen. Pity the keys rub against it when the lid is closed, leaving a keyboard pattern of scratches in that lovely screen.
It does indeed mostly work well with Linux. Except for the video, that has some funky video routing that both X and Wayland struggle with. The only way I can get it to work is to boot with X using an X display manager, but then flip to Wayland. Staying in X doesn't work, booting in Wayland doesn't work. Apparently that was fixed in GenIII. And while it does work well for Linux, Lenovo refuses to honour the 5 year warranty unless you boot Windows.
I did use ThinkPad's when IBM made them. They were expensive, but they were MacBook'est in quality. That's why I got the X1, but it seems Lenovo bought the name, only.
Annoyingly but unimportantly, the paint started peeling off in year 1. That's not covered by warranty, according to Lenovo. The battery dropped to 80% in a year. Apparently that's not a warranty issue either.
It now throttles all the time. That's almost certainly due to overheating, possibly because of some fan issue, possibly because the interior of the fan is clogged - but I can't figure out how to get to it to clean it as it looks to require heat sink removal. It does have an absolutely gorgeous 4K OLED screen. Pity the keys rub against it when the lid is closed, leaving a keyboard pattern of scratches in that lovely screen.
It does indeed mostly work well with Linux. Except for the video, that has some funky video routing that both X and Wayland struggle with. The only way I can get it to work is to boot with X using an X display manager, but then flip to Wayland. Staying in X doesn't work, booting in Wayland doesn't work. Apparently that was fixed in GenIII. And while it does work well for Linux, Lenovo refuses to honour the 5 year warranty unless you boot Windows.
I did use ThinkPad's when IBM made them. They were expensive, but they were MacBook'est in quality. That's why I got the X1, but it seems Lenovo bought the name, only.