After deliberating for months whether I should buy a second hand or new laptop to run Linux as my main OS, I decided to go for the Legion 5. It comes with the Ryzen 7 4800H and Nvidia GTX 1650Ti.
So far 2 of the distros I tried work out of the box (Manjaro and Fedora). Pop_OS (NVIDIA version) and Kali both work as long as I chose the dedicated GPU in the BIOS as opposed to hybrid mode. Ubuntu and Elementary OS did not work.
Out of the distros that do work, Fedora seems to be the most stable and I have managed to get it working in hybrid mode.
The one thing that still does not work in any version of Linux is the touchpad. USB mouse works fine.
I have had a look on various forums but I cannot find any concrete work around this issue and to be honest sometimes the stuff I read is way over my head.
Does anyone have any suggestion or point to me to a basic how to guide?
W.
So far 2 of the distros I tried work out of the box (Manjaro and Fedora). Pop_OS (NVIDIA version) and Kali both work as long as I chose the dedicated GPU in the BIOS as opposed to hybrid mode. Ubuntu and Elementary OS did not work.
Out of the distros that do work, Fedora seems to be the most stable and I have managed to get it working in hybrid mode.
The one thing that still does not work in any version of Linux is the touchpad. USB mouse works fine.
I have had a look on various forums but I cannot find any concrete work around this issue and to be honest sometimes the stuff I read is way over my head.
Does anyone have any suggestion or point to me to a basic how to guide?
W.