Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 2nd Gen with Ubuntu 14.04

[Rob_Johnson]

Hi. How did you go about installing this on Arch? I've got Antergos Gnome and Manjaro Xfce installs to play with! As well as Mint Xfce. I found the same with the stylus naming in Antergos, but not in Manjaro, with another set of scripts. For the record, autorotate worked with those: https://github.com/admiralakber/thinkpad-yoga-scripts
(Actually, maybe it didn't for the tent/tablet change, will check)

I am on Arch with Gnome now and the experience is pretty much the same as on Ubuntu. For spin, I had to remove "stylus" from the end of line 393 as the name of the pen in xinput is "Wacom ISDv4 EC Pen" for me. I can also not get the autorotation to work, but I don't mind that (I think it was something with acpi display_position_change being an unknwon command, your github fork doesn't allow opening new issues so I couldn't comment there).

[cheflo]

Hey, I am using Antegros as well! I view it almost as an Arch installer, since all the repos are the normal Arch ones + one extra from the Antegros team, unlike Manjora where they have their own repos (which I actually think is advantageous due to the lower probability of breaking from updates, but I had some troubles with dual boot in Manjaro and I prefer Gnome to KDE). Antegros has been working smoothly since I changed lightdm for gdm and installed a few essentials packages for an improved desktop experience (Put Windows gnome extensions, jumpapp application launcher and fixed the font rendering as described in a post in the Manjaro forum).

Come to think about it, there is one problem with the touchscreen - If I use the pen or the mouse in combination with touching the screen at the same time, the OS will freeze for several seconds. I barely use touch, so I just turn it off and use either the pen or the mouse. Impeccable "palm rejection" is a nice side effect =) I never got spin to work perfectly, and I don't use it right now, but the palm rejection worked with the tweaks I listed earlier, although it outputs a few error messages.

[gingepaton]

I've written a longish blogpost about how to configure the ThinkPad Yoga 12, under Ubuntu 15.10 here. http://ragnarb.com/configuring-think...-ubuntu-15-10/

I hope you find it usefull.

Thank you very much, I have found this to be very helpful indeed.
I love Lenovo's X series, I have had 6 of them. I thought it was time to change things up and I switched to the S2 Yoga 12 and without this post I would have lost my beloved Ubuntu.

[cogito.ergo.lulz]

Hi, I am considering buying a 2nd gen ThinkPad yoga (i5, 8GB RAM) to be used as a Linux-only machine. Before buying I'd like to know what are the issues (if any) related to the hardware support. Before this laptop, I tried with an Asus X205TA which is still quite problematic (no sound/random freezes/bluetooth not working), so I feel I have to be pretty cautious before buying a new laptop.
By reading on the forums looks everything is OK with this one, am I right?
Both the basic stuff (Video/audio/wireless/sleep/hibernate/power management) and laptop-specific ones (touchscreen/digitizer/tablet mode) are working?