Lenovo
ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 AMD
Twenty-four exact-model reports show strong performance and upgradeability, but sleep, Qualcomm wireless, battery life and the basic display make configuration choice matter.
Bottom line
The four direct Omarchy reports are not a clean bill of health: they cover a display that would not wake after lid-close suspend, a system-wide file-picker freeze, a Limine-specific firmware-update workaround and a Caps Lock regression. The broader Arch and Linux record is more encouraging about installation, desktop use and development performance, but it also makes sleep and Qualcomm wireless the model's most persistent risk areas. Arch reports are the closest transferable evidence here; reports from other distributions are labeled separately and should be treated as warnings or supporting context, not Omarchy results.
This is best suited to plugged or docked development and to buyers who value replaceable memory, an accessible SSD and much stronger compute than older ThinkPads. If buying, prefer the 100% sRGB low-power panel over the basic 45% NTSC panel and favor the NFA725A over the NCM825 based on the better results in this corpus. During the return period, test cold boot from your installer, repeated suspend and wake, Bluetooth audio, Wi-Fi after several sleep cycles and battery life under your actual workload.
What is reported
12 findings with cited evidenceInstall and boot
Slackware, Ubuntu and Fedora owners completed installation, and the Fedora owner found the drivers working immediately. A Ryzen 5 Pro 8540U owner on BIOS 1.17 tried several USB-writing tools but could not boot Arch media: the screen went black and returned to the firmware menu.
Most retained installs succeeded, but Arch installation media is not guaranteed to boot on every firmware and hardware configuration. One Slackware owner also had to enable Microsoft's third-party UEFI certificate authority before Linux would start.
Desktop and graphics
Owners across Slackware, Ubuntu, Arch and Fedora describe responsive desktop use. The Fedora owner ran multiple Docker containers and light games on the Radeon 780M, while an Arch owner called the Ryzen 7 Pro 8840U the machine's clearest strength.
The corpus supports ordinary desktop and development use on the integrated Radeon graphics. It does not provide a controlled Omarchy benchmark.
Internal display and brightness
The low-power IPS review panel measured 439 nits and full sRGB coverage, while an Arch owner found the basic 45% NTSC panel washed out and yellow. An Ubuntu OLED owner stopped panel glitches with amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10, and a Fedora owner reported video artifacts in Blink-based browsers but not Firefox.
Panel choice affects both image quality and Linux behavior. The 100% sRGB low-power IPS option has the strongest all-around evidence; the OLED and basic IPS configurations carry different compromises.
Keyboard, hotkeys and backlight
The current exact-model ArchWiki maps the keyboard and most function keys as working, and a Fedora owner reported working hotkeys. One Ubuntu owner had a keyboard failure after sleep, while an Omarchy 4.0.2 owner later reported that Caps Lock stopped working or became stuck after an update.
General keyboard use is established, but the two failure reports mean hotkeys and repeated wake cycles deserve explicit testing. Owner opinions about key feel also vary sharply by configuration and comparison machine.
Touchpad and pointing
The current exact-model ArchWiki lists the touchpad as working, and Ubuntu owners reported it working out of the box. A Slackware owner found the Elan touchpad jumpy and disabled tap-to-click.
The mixed result may depend on the desktop or input configuration; the evidence does not support calling the touchpad either universally clean or universally broken.
Fingerprint and biometrics
One exact-model Linux owner reported that the optional fingerprint reader worked through fprint.
This is one positive Linux result, not a direct Omarchy result. Configurations without the optional power-button reader have no fingerprint hardware to enable.
Working reportsSourceWi-Fi and Bluetooth
The current exact-model ArchWiki lists Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as working, and several owners had working Wi-Fi. Other reports cover an NCM825 suspend blocker, a linux-firmware regression that removed Wi-Fi after reboot, severe speed drops and Bluetooth headsets that paired without an audio connection until a later kernel.
The NFA725A has the better record in this corpus, but neither Qualcomm path is issue-free. The firmware thread records that an upstream correction later landed, and the support project documents a module-reset workaround for post-suspend slowdown; both are version-sensitive results.
Speakers, microphone and audio
The current exact-model ArchWiki lists the built-in audio device as working. Slackware and Ubuntu owners also reported working internal sound.
Built-in audio has a consistent Linux baseline, but no retained report separately tests the microphone under Omarchy. The kernel-sensitive Bluetooth-headset result is tracked under wireless because it follows the NCM825 radio path.
Camera
The current exact-model ArchWiki lists the webcam as working. An Arch owner used the camera and found its image substantially better than the camera in an older T480s.
Basic webcam output has direct Arch evidence. Check the exact configuration before buying because Lenovo also sold an infrared-equipped version and rare special-bid machines without a camera; no retained Omarchy report establishes infrared login.
Suspend and resume
The largest issue cluster concerns s2idle, wake and hibernation. Reports include 27% loss in three hours, about 50% loss in two hours, ath12k blocking suspend, a blank internal display after wake, failed USB-C wake and repeatable hibernation freezes. Other owners report normal suspend or restored it with acpi.ec_no_wakeup=1 and, for hibernation, additional systemd and ACPI changes.
Working suspend exists, but it is configuration-sensitive and regressions have occurred. Test lid wake, AC connection, docked wake and overnight drain separately; a workaround that fixes one path does not establish the others.
External displays and docks
One Arch owner used a Dell U4924DW as the primary display over USB-C, establishing working docked output. That owner could not wake the sleeping laptop by reconnecting USB-C, and a separate hibernation report found failures were more likely with a dock and external monitor attached.
USB-C display output can work while wake behavior remains unreliable. Docked buyers should test display, charging, cold start, s2idle wake and hibernation as separate functions.
Battery, power and thermals
Linux battery reports range from about two hours under an IDE, Docker and Chrome to six to eight hours in lighter use; one tuned owner saw estimates near 10 hours. An Arch owner found the underside hot during browsing, while the measured Windows review recorded 10 hours 18 minutes at 150 nits, a 61.5 C bottom hotspot and no sustained-load throttling at 23 watts.
Workload, panel, power policy and test method matter more than a single headline number. The controlled battery and thermal figures show hardware capacity under Windows, not Omarchy efficiency; Linux software telemetry can also misstate USB-C voltage even when measured power delivery is normal.
Changes over time
11 dated events- Broad Linux review identifies standby drain
Slackware installed successfully and most hardware worked, but suspend used 27% of the battery in about three hours.
- Ubuntu owner reports severe s2idle drain and device failures
A 21MC configuration lost 53% in 3.5 hours of standby and had ath11k and keyboard failures after wake.
- Kernel parameter restores standby and networking
The same owner reported that acpi.ec_no_wakeup=1 stopped the severe drain and restored networking after wake.
- Downgrade restores Wi-Fi after firmware regression
An Arch owner traced missing WCN7850 board data to the September linux-firmware package and recovered by downgrading. The thread later records that an upstream correction landed Oct. 14, but it does not include a same-machine retest.
- Newer kernel restores Bluetooth audio
The NCM825 owner who had been unable to connect several headsets reported that the latest kernel fixed the failure.
- Resume from hibernation becomes unreliable
Two Arch owners reported complete freezes during resume; one said the path had worked before and later found failures more likely with a dock and external monitor attached.
- Arch owner reports working webcam and improved image quality
The owner used the built-in camera and found its image substantially better than the webcam in an older T480s.
- Omarchy lid wake and file-picker failures reported
One 21MC owner reported a blank internal display after lid-close suspend and a separate file-picker delay that froze the system for about 20 seconds.
- Limine firmware-update staging path confirmed
An Omarchy owner created the EFI/arch directory expected by fwupd and then completed a system firmware update from 0.1.14 to 0.1.21.
- Hibernation configuration reported working
A Linux owner combined HibernateMode=shutdown, acpi.ec_no_wakeup=1 and disabled ACPI wake sources to make hibernation reliable on that machine.
- Caps Lock regression reported on Omarchy 4.0.2
The key stopped working reliably after an update on a Ryzen 7 Pro 8840U configuration.