@Linuxembourg Thanks for the help. Did try and no go.
@brickwizard have no clue how old is the laptop I am using. Its a
"Lenovo Legion 5 15ARH05H"
I wiped Ubuntu
Loved using Ubuntu vanilla because its the only Distro (I tested not all but a couple) that allowed my Laptop to be running cool as a cucumber and with great battery run time. Don't know what they did but they did it right. Regardless, no touchpad on a laptop is kind of a show stopper.
I am now running OpenSuse Tumbleweed with latest kernel I guess
"5.15.2-1-default". The touchpad works as you would expect with the newest kernel. One main issue is the fan running too high for my taste. Comparing with Ubuntu, I would like to be able to have it like before: quiet. I haven't tested the battery runtime nor the display driver for the nvidia 1660ti. As per below, it does seem nouveau drivers were installed. At first glance, not as good as the latest proprietary drivers installed on Ubuntu. Regardless, can't complain as working out the box for now
Code:
/usr/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU116M [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile] [10de:2191] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3a46]
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau
Display backlight -> Ok
Keyboard backlight -> Ok
Bluetooth -> Ok - ish.. Connect with external speakers but random disconnection.. No idea why.
sound --> Ok but... Keyboard shortcut for sound is dead. No effect on the sound volume at all.. I have to use the onscreen slider then it works. I guess from my reading about Xfce, its more or less expected. Possibly some libraries missing ?
ethernet --> Ok
WiFi --> Ok.
PS: Went with Xfce.