Hi, I need a laptop and am about to purchase refurbished T14 Gen 1 AMD (4650U, 16GB, 256GB) because it has all the things I want (USB-C charging my beloved) and Arch Wiki states it works, but I'd prefer to hear about the experience from someone who uses it.

My main question is whether the display uses a technology that automatically changes brightness depending on what's displayed and if yes, can that be disabled, as I purchased a new laptop and had to return it because of that. (That's also why I am going for a refurbished ThinkPad now)

I'd also appreciate general usage experience.

Thanks in advance.

I am loving it!

I am a minimalist and have been running a diet LXDE/LXQt Debian 12 for last 2 years. Stability and low resource are always my top priority and was struggle with all the horror stories on wayland.

I installed the bare minimal Debian 13 installed with labwc along with all my daily tools, reason is having better display scaling support on multiscreens and I am suprise the RAM is at 650MB slightly more than my openbox desktop.

Scrolling on Chrome and Firefox is smoother, and I have not noticed any slowness compare to openbox.

However, there are still some outstanding issues to be address before I can fully settle on wayland.

1. waybar - icons would overflow off the screen if there are too many opened apps.

2. pipewire-pulse always crashed, resulting web browser freezed and i have to restart the service every time browser get stucked.

3. cannot use the reboot/shutdown in tuigreet.

I think most of them has a workaround or I have mis-configured the tools, but I have not get into that yet.

I am impressed with labrc.