Has anyone tested the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 with Qubes OS 4.2.4 yet? I can’t find any compatibility reports (probably too new?). Given that Gen 12 had some issues with Qubes (e.g. here ), I’d appreciate any feedback on: installation experience hardware compatibility (WiFi, graphics, suspend/res…

I don’t think anyone here tested it. Sorry :worried:

The system fails to boot. The initial error message indicates that USB in dom0 is not restricted, at which point the boot process freezes. Bypassing USB initialization leads to a secondary hang at plymouth-quit-wait.service. Manual login is possible, but the system remains non-functional due to the …

At the 39C3, the CCC’s chaos communication congress in Hamburg I had the chance to have a Qubes developer troubleshoot the issue. For a yet unknown reason, the graphics driver does not get copied onto the system during the installation, if you manually copy the driver from the install medium, you ca…

See also here: Drivers for Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE201 320MHz on Thinkpad Carbon X1 Gen 13

Oh, this could be really helpful. Perhaps a stupid question: how do you login as a user?

Press e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2, then a login prompt will appear, as long as you have already entered the disk encrpytion password previously. (You have to do this blind due to the missing graphics driver, just wait a bit when you see the “USB in dom0 is not restricted” message and then enter the disc passwo…

Thanks for this. Removing the “quiet” made the boot process more transparent (ie more verbose). However, I still struggle to login. I entered the disk encryption password (I also tried a US-keyboard version just because) and then tried Ctrl-Alt-F2 and Ctlr-Alt-FN-F2. Still no luck. As for the post-…

Sorry but you have to get past the disk encryption password somehow. Please assume the keyboard layout at the time to be US. So that means that not only your z and y keys might be switched, but also some of the special characters might be wrong. (e.g. see here: Google Image Result for https://cdn.sh…

Thanks again for the reply. I even reduced the password for the encryption to a single letter and tried external keyboards - all to no avail. I guess there is no video documentation of what the QubesOS member did? :slight_smile:

any news on it? still have new laptop unused

ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13

User Support Hardware Issues

clearsky October 25, 2026, 10:01pm 18

Did you, within dom0, try to set the screen resolution to 1920x1200 and leave the scale at “1x” ?

Best QubesOS alternative?