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Not sure what you mean. Firmware updates are supported by fwupd.

Then why did they have to keep Windows on to apply all the firmware updates?

Because they don't know about fwupd? Why are you not asking them instead of a Hacker News comment?

Because you claimed something that contradicts the article. Do you have a source for what firmware updates can be applied on this model with fwipd?

Yes, the source is LVFS, which is where fwupd pulls packages. Here's an example of a system firmware package for that machine: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/com.lenovo.ThinkPadN3ATR.firm...

There are other devices within the machine which also receive firmware updates, like the NVME drive and the Thunderbolt controller and so forth. It is absolutely trivial to find this information, to the point if you're running any fully-functional GNOME or KDE deployment the software update tools (GNOME Software, KDE Discover) will in fact prompt you to update when something is available.

Nice. Thanks!

I own this model and update it with fwupdmgr all the time

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