Yeah, sure. The guy who was employed by Red Hat and worked (and continues to discuss) on getting UEFI secure boot and is fully aware of the ways vendors can "lock out" free operating systems is a shill.
Lenovo made sane (although disagreeable as far as the Linux community is concerned) decisions with regards to supporting a consumer device, Intel has drivers for the RAID mode in their storage controller on Windows and that's what Lenovo ships and supports on the device. Manufacturers not giving a damn about Linux support and using hardware and configurations that isn't supported under anything but Windows at launch is hardly new (remember when Dell launched the updated XPS13 that moved a bunch of stuff to an I2C bus that wasn't supported by the Linux kernel for some time?)
This isn't the first time a "RAID" controller hasn't been supported under Linux, it's been less frequent because most of the time these were in workstation or server gear where there was incentive to provide support for something other than Windows. This is a consumer device, the vast majority of consumers just use Windows on their systems and OEM's have no reason to support anything else 99% of the time. Go yell at Intel and get them to either provide drivers or specifications so someone who wants to can do it.
Re: Liar.
Lenovo made sane (although disagreeable as far as the Linux community is concerned) decisions with regards to supporting a consumer device, Intel has drivers for the RAID mode in their storage controller on Windows and that's what Lenovo ships and supports on the device. Manufacturers not giving a damn about Linux support and using hardware and configurations that isn't supported under anything but Windows at launch is hardly new (remember when Dell launched the updated XPS13 that moved a bunch of stuff to an I2C bus that wasn't supported by the Linux kernel for some time?)
This isn't the first time a "RAID" controller hasn't been supported under Linux, it's been less frequent because most of the time these were in workstation or server gear where there was incentive to provide support for something other than Windows. This is a consumer device, the vast majority of consumers just use Windows on their systems and OEM's have no reason to support anything else 99% of the time. Go yell at Intel and get them to either provide drivers or specifications so someone who wants to can do it.