I recently purchased a Lenovo X1 Yoga, Generation 1 to run Fedora Linux (F23). I’ve run Lenovo X1s for a while now, but the 8GB of RAM was becoming a limit for running VMs. I had colleagues who got the X1 Carbon 3rd and 4th generations, but I decided to try the Yoga to see if I could ditch my (sometimes used) tablet.
Pros:
- great laptop: good weight, great screen, good 1TB SSD disk
- Mostly good Linux support (as of May 2016), except see the one but
- Nice to be back to a regular keyboard and physical mouse buttons, after 2 years of the X1-Gen2’s funny keyboard.
- Linux high-DPI support has gotten solid since 2014. Now it’s generally not a problem.
Cons:
- Fedora 23 install requires adding intel_pstate=disable to the boot line. Supposedly fixed in linux-4.5 (see lp#1188647, or maybe linux-4.6 (see redhat#1322612), and so presumably the in Fedora 24 build-to-be.
Overall: Experiences are early, but seems like a strict upgrade from my X1-Gen2.
FreeBSD
I don’t know about the status of FreeBSD on this hardware as of July 2014.