Reddit · r/thinkpad · Jul 25, 2026 · summarized
PositiveA week on Fedora with GNOME on their Core Ultra 5 228V T14 Gen 6: no issues, great battery life, working fingerprint reader and smooth dev tools.
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Reddit · r/thinkpad · Jul 25, 2026 · summarized
PositiveA week on Fedora with GNOME on their Core Ultra 5 228V T14 Gen 6: no issues, great battery life, working fingerprint reader and smooth dev tools.
Reddit · r/thinkpad · Sep 7, 2026 · summarized
PositiveRuns openSUSE Slowroll on a Lunar Lake T14 Gen 6 and is very happy with it. Says any reasonably up-to-date distro works on it.
Reddit · r/thinkpad · Sep 7, 2026 · summarized
PositiveLong-time Arch user now runs Ubuntu on the T14 Gen 6 and likes it, citing official Lenovo support and working drivers. Also used Arch and CachyOS on it before.
Reddit · r/thinkpad · Sep 4, 2026 · summarized
PositiveBought a secondhand Lunar Lake T14 Gen 6 a month earlier and says everything is great. Gets about 6-7 hours of light coding on Linux Mint with battery thresholds set.
Reddit · r/thinkpad · Sep 8, 2026 · summarized
PositiveBought the same T14 Gen 6 and runs Debian 13 on it, which works really well with everything needed supported out of the box and stable.
Reddit · r/thinkpad · Aug 11, 2026 · summarized
PositiveOwns the AMD version running CachyOS and really likes it.
Reddit · r/thinkpad · Jan 12, 2026 · summarized
PositiveHas run openSUSE Tumbleweed flawlessly on the AMD T14 Gen 6 since October, describing the experience as a bit boring.
Reddit · r/thinkpad · Aug 8, 2025 · summarized
PositiveUses the T14 Gen 6 as a work daily driver running Arch Linux, likes the screen, and can even run small local LLMs; only regret is skipping the backlit keyboard.
Reddit · r/thinkpad · Aug 7, 2025 · summarized
PositiveGets about 10 hours on Windows and 8-9 hours on Fedora Linux from the AMD T14 Gen 6 with an IPS screen.
Of the 44 reviews with a clear verdict, 66% are positive, 20% mixed and 14% negative. The praise mentioned most is Linux friendly. The most common complaint is short battery life.
The complaints reviewers mention most: short battery life (3 reviews), driver or software issues (1 review) and heavy (1 review). For example: Owns an AMD T14 Gen 6 and only reaches about 5 hours of battery, far short of the 9-10 hours others report.
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