Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
The community&#x27;s reaction seems absurd to me.<p>For whatever reason, the device only exposes some sort of RAID controller to the OS, and for whatever reason, there&#x27;s no working option for exposing a more standard AHCI interface instead. The problem is that Linux doesn&#x27;t (yet) have a driver for that RAID controller.<p>Okay, great. Linux doesn&#x27;t yet support particular piece of hardware. News at 11.<p>Just like usual, if you want odd hardware to work on Linux, you&#x27;ll have to write some drivers. That&#x27;s just how it is. This is nothing new or scandalous. The reasons why Lenovo doesn&#x27;t support AHCI don&#x27;t matter. They don&#x27;t, so now somebody must write a driver for what they do support. Once that happens, nobody will complain anymore. It&#x27;s that simple. Nothing is being locked with Secure Boot; nothing is being locked with crypto; there is no DRM at play. If you want hardware support, write a driver.<p>As for all the Lenovo-bashing going on here... My personal experience with my new Thinkpad P50 has been overwhelmingly positive. It&#x27;s working on Gentoo Linux entirely: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_P50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_P50</a>