I recently purchased a Lenovo X1 Yoga, Generation 4 to run Fedora Linux (F31). This is my fourth Yoga, so they must be on to something.
Pros:
- great laptop: good weight, great screen, good 1TB SSD disk
- Good Linux support (as of Nov. 2017), except for suprise sound.
Cons:
- The X1 Yoga Gen 4 and X1 Gen 7 remove change to new, fancy sound support: the “Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 11)”. It worked fine with linux-4.7 in Fedora 31, but only when using headphones. It broke completely with linux-5.4.15—the system would come up with “dummy device only” for sound. I hobbled on the old for about a year, until Fedora 32 and the alsa-sof-firmware package fixed it.
Overall: Disappointing to have sound break (I looked–the last time Linux sound didn’t work out of the box for me was 2000), but all is well with Fedora 32.
(And reflecting back on the year 2000: I really like my Thinkpad X1 Yoga, but the old Sony 505 and SR7k were so much smaller, and yet still usable. The Ultrabook wave of 2012 brought us thin, but so large. Although the high-DPI display is nice to get used to.)
FreeBSD
I don’t know about the status of FreeBSD on this hardware as of July 2018.