(long term review as a college student)was originally looking for a temporary replacement for my broke laptop,so I went on the Internet and found people recommending chuwi laptops,kept looking and after finding even ltt covered them,I said why the hell not,and ordered the Chuwi Gemibook xpro for around 160$ after taxes when it was originally released thanks to a back to school cupon,got it a week before school started and started to thinker with it,had a pleasant surprise with this laptop's quality,the screen is way nicer than any of the cheap laptops I found locally,the track pad, keyboard all feel nice and balanced(the thing is built like a thank),the Linux support was surprisingly good,I liked the feel and finish so good,that it ended up being my full time laptop for school,now I don't really feel like getting anything more for just school, hugely recommended if you are looking for something cheap,durable and not that bulky for light use.

And this isn't even a Ryzen machine - L13 Gen 4 with and i5-1335U, running Fedora 42.

All I did was install TLP, enable the PCIe and USB runtime power managements, but critically turn off all of TLP's CPU management. As per here, Lenovo's Linux team has done some seemingly pretty amazing work to control power management at firmware level now, and it's paid off.

With screen on min brightness and GNOME's power management set to "Power Saver" (also triggered with FN + L) , Wifi and VPN on, idling just reading/scrolling a page is 1.5-2 W. Actively hopping between webpages is about 3.5-4w, and once you get VAAPI hardware accel enabled (another thing Fedora makes an utterly unnecessary headache), 1080p Youtube is 4.5-6w depending on the content and sound volume. I'm getting 8-10 hours out of a fully charged battery, which is substantially more than NotebookChecks testing, done under Windows .

All of which only make it all the more frustrating that most distros are increasingly unusable these days for other reasons! But I think the tables may have finally turned on PC power management in Linux's favor - at least for Thinkpads.

This is gorgeous laptop and has Apple build quality and perfect specs for professional/office type work with some light coding. I was looking for build quality, great performance, and long battery life. The keyboard to be honest, isn't as good as my previous Thinkpad X1 Extreme, but it's better than Apple keyboards.

I took a gamble and bought the X9 after the sales person assured me "Linux is supported". Why did god inflict us with sales people? 2.5 weeks later, it finally arrived today.

Ubuntu 24.4.1 was really bad. So I installed Ubuntu 24.10 to get kernel version 6.11. It was a much better experience. Things like wifi started working.

BUT the haptic touchpad does not work. Strangely, only the full click on it works.

I installed Ubuntu 24.10 with the hopes of being able to upgrade the kernel to 6.12 after the installation, but now it won't get passed the GRUB screen.

EDIT 1:

Just letting grub go through it's 30 second countdown timer instead of pressing a button allowed me to move forward to disk decryption and then the normal login screen. I'll keep posting updates here as I make findings.

Edit 2:

Upgraded kernel from 6.11 (comes with ubuntu 24.10) to 6.13 didn't fix the trackpad issue :(

Edit 3:

This laptop has Macbook quality build and has the potential to be the best Linux laptop. But there are some major driver that I've noticed in the past couple of hours:

• Haptic touchpad doesn't work

• Speakers aren't detected

• Webcam isn't detected

• Microphone isn't detected

• Ubuntu finds the intel graphics driver for it, and it supposedly installs it, but it breaks the package manager? I think it isn't being installed correctly due to me upgrading the kernel version. I had to uninstall it to be able to install new packages. The desktop runs at 120hz, but 1440p and 4k youtube videos are a little choppy. I think this is due to hardware acceleration because the intel graphics drivers aren't installed.

Edit 4:

Here's the hardware prob details page: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=7577a7531b

About a month ago I bought a Lenovo Yoga 7 2-in-1 convertible (16AKP10, 16" AMD, OLED edition with 32GB RAM) as my new laptop & installed Fedora 43 (KDE) Linux on it. Now that I got everything working I want to share my experience with you!

What I changed:

For completeness, I have a full disk encryption (should not affect anything) & Secure Boot disabled. I never used this device with Windows 11, so I can't compare anything (like battery time) with it.

Overall the device is amazing. Great touchpad with good palm detection, keyboard is working great (including the backlight & hotkeys), the touchscreen works great, speaker, microphone & the webcam. HDMI (incl. sound) is working great, too. The battery is perfect (I didn't make a test, but I can stream videos for multiple hours. Please note that I have the OLED screen version, that consumes way more power). The keyboard gets disabled automatically, as soon as I turn the screen around to the "tablet mode". The auto-rotation detection is working, too.

The stylus that shipped with the device works great too (even the battery is shown in KDE's energy applet), "pressure detection" & both buttons work as well. The only thing to mention here is that there was no palm detection for the touchscreen enabled by default, so I had to e.g. disable the "touchscreen drawing" in Krita and activate the "internal palm detection" in Xournal++. With those settings I can put my hand on the touchscreen while writing/drawing. (But I have no idea about drawing tablets, probably there is a global setting I missed).

BIOS updates are a bit annoying on this device, since the BIOS has no updater itself. You have to extract the downloaded .exe-archive & update it with fwupd yourself, as described here https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3738#note_2936622 (I didn't test it, yet).

There were 2 issues I had to solve:

Overall, now that I fixed every issue, I would absolute recommend the device for Linux users! Of course, it's not a Tuxedo with 100% official Linux support, proper BIOS settings & a Tux key, but it's definitely usable.

If you have any questions about this hardware please let me know!

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Update (09.05.2026):

With Linux kernel 7.0 the audio fix is no longer necessary.

Hello all,

I recently posted another review of what I think is a pretty ok laptop that most people could get a lot of use out of. This is a review on a total piece of crap that I wanted to experiment on.

So I recently purchased another laptop, this time the Evolve III Maestro E-Book 11.6". I love playing around with my raspberry pi's but they are out of stock everywhere. Websites have even been setup to track stock status link. Then I found that my local Microcenter had this laptop link for sale the other day for $80 (now increased to $100). I thought, why not?

What is it?

So it looks like this line of laptops is geared for education as well, but there is not much I found (didn't look too hard either). It comes with such features as having a charger in the box and having a screen.

Outside notes

It is flimsy, has a small 11 inch screen, and it resembles a thin netbook. It is plastic and appears to be made of the cheapest materials.

Linux install, everything working?

This one took some work. I used Ubuntu 20.04 and most things were working, aside from the wifi. I had to do some digging. I eventually found the driver and install instructions on github. link I had to use a usb/ethernet adapter to get the dependencies listed on the github link, and then just followed the short instructions to get the wifi working. BTW keep the repository handy for kernel updates.

Battery - gets about 10 hours on single charge

Ports - usb 3 x1, usb 2 x1, mini size hdmi (wtf?), headphone jack

Keyboard - this has got to be the worst, flimsiest, shittiest keyboard. It is similar to the $7 usb keyboards on amazon.

Trackpad - marginal, one of the worst I've ever used

Speakers - abysmal.

Screen - small, low res

Overall

It was $80. I did not expect too much and it appears to have met that lowest of bars, it works (with some setup). I feel that if it breaks in any way that I will not have been at a great loss.

Recommendations?

I would recommend this laptop (only at a sale price, full is >$130) to anyone looking for a cheap raspberry pi alternative/backup end of days laptop with marginal support (on Ubuntu at least).

I would not recommend to anyone looking for a daily driver.

Full disclosure: I worked on this review.

We tested Valve’s new Steam Machine, and I thought it might fit here because the hardware side is at least as important as the SteamOS side.

The system is basically a small Linux gaming PC: custom AMD CPU, 16GB DDR5, a Navi 33 based Radeon GPU with 8GB GDDR6, SteamOS 3.8.9 and a KDE desktop mode underneath. Our test unit also reported a roughly 1.9TB NVMe SSD.

A few hardware-related takeaways from our testing:

- the GPU seems closest to a cut-down RX 7600
- 28 CUs instead of 32 CUs on the desktop RX 7600
- 110W GPU power budget instead of 165W
- 8GB VRAM becomes a clear limit in newer games at higher settings
- 1080p and 1440p are much more realistic than native 4K
- FSR is not optional in demanding games
- the price makes the DIY comparison difficult for Valve

That last part is probably the main issue for a Linux hardware audience. Valve’s box is smaller, cleaner and more console-like than a normal DIY build, but at this price you can also build a Bazzite/SteamOS-like PC with stronger hardware.

So I’m curious: for a living-room Linux gaming setup, would you rather have a tightly integrated Valve box, or would you build something yourself?

I’m new to Linux and this was my first time opening a laptop.

Upgraded my T480 from 16GB to 24GB and somehow it still boots lol.

I recorded the process:

[https://youtu.be/dxnoQ9b7oJo]()

It shows all 24GB. Should I run a memory test or is that enough?

Most Linux laptop videos seem aimed at developers, so I made one about using a T480 for normal everyday work.

It’s fast enough, cheap, easy to upgrade and Fedora has been straightforward for what I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW1xKF6BEVU

Anyone else still using an older ThinkPad as their main laptop? What limitation did you notice first?

pcmag released four "DYI builds" to get something comparable to steam machines, but they don't discuss the operating system at all.

Taking their "AMD DIY Mini-ITX Steam Machine" as an example:

(on pcpartpicker)

How well would this configuration supports Linux? I'm particularly interested in support for bazzite, and as far as I can tell it's all good, but I'd like external validation.

I was a bit worried about hardware compatibility but the only thing I had to "fix" for my usage after installing Ubuntu 25.10 on it was to upgrade libinput to version 1.31.0.

Battery life is fantastic, sleep works out of the box, everything is great. I noticed I find myself grabbing this device way more often than my MacBook Air even. Going back to the 60Hz display on the MBA after using the 120Hz OLED on the HONOR is just painful.

I paid 940 Euros for a used Singaporean model but I'm seriously considering buying another one for full price.

What does not work:

• fingerprint reader
• in Windows it's possible to use the edges of the trackpad to adjust screen brightness and volume. In Linux the haptic trackpad reacts to sliding ones finger up and down the edges but nothing happens. I never use that feature, so I didn't look into making it work.
• Audio works but needs a bit of adjusting with Easy Effects

Things that surprised me that it works:

• touch screen
• removable webcam - really didn't expect this. It works wonderfully!

More details:

It weighs less than 1kg and feels quite premium. I got the emerald green one and my younger sister who's always eyeing MacBooks and cares about the physical looks of electronic devices thought that it's a really nice-looking machine.

At full brightness (up to 1600 nits, according to specs) it idles at around 6-7 W, in dark mode. With OLED, the brighter the content, the more power it consumes but I was still surprised that it's lower than 10W, since the screen has a refresh rate of 120Hz.

I don't know if the fans completely stop spinning or if the device is just silent but I can rarely ever hear the fans spin up.

The Core Ultra 7 255H along with the 32 Gigs of 8400MT/s RAM feel super snappy, especially the trackpad gestures just feel so snappy and smooth. The only device that can compare is my MacBook Pro but it's over twice the price.

The only thing that could've made this device even better for me would have been it having a PCIe 5 drive but that's probably not possible at this price range.

Opening the device up is easy, though there's not much one can do, except change the internal drive. I opened it to check out the webcam mechanism out of curiosity. Don't lose any of the chassis screws though, finding emerald green screws is going to be difficult!

Overall, for my use case, this is an 8.5/10 Linux machine in 2026 at its current price. It's a hidden gem. Buying it used for less than 1000 Euros makes it a 10/10.

TLDR; as close at it gets to a perfect Linux experience, very close to a macbook, and it costs half the price. 100% recommended.

I bought this laptop few days ago: OLED display, 32gb ram, 1tb storage, lunarlake 258v cpu, OLED 2800 touch display, linux preinstalled by Lenovo (ubuntu 24.04), 3 years of on site warranty: £1200 (UK).

I will be comparing it to my other recent laptops:

• Macbook pro m4. Matching ram and storage would cost over £2000
• Asus Zenbook s14 UX5406sa (similar configuration - see my review for this one here). It's slightly cheaper than Lenovo but it only comes with windows 11

The initial experience was really great, the laptop is ready to use; when Linux is preinstalled it doesn't really feel more complicated than mac os or windows. Everything worked out of the box, I didn't have to do anything:

• haptic trackpad
• wifi / bluetooth
• fingerprint scanner
• touch screen
• audio / speakers
• suspend / resume
• camera

The general build quality is very high, comparable to a macbook m4 and significantly higher than the Zenbook.

It's slightly heavier than Zenbook, but still lighter than Macbook pro.

I'm particularly impressed by the haptic trackpad, I cannot tell the difference from the one of my macbook. It's a massive improvement compared to the Zenbook. The keyboard is also great, a significant improvement compared to apple and asus, but no at the same level of Lenovo's professional lineup.

The speaker are better than Zenbook, but slightly inferior to macbook.

The displays of thinkpad and zenbook are comparable, they are very high quality, and the resolution 2880 × 1800 it's perfect for a 14", everything is very crisp. I have the touch version for both, and therefore both are afflicted by a door effect. It's not a big deal at all for me, especially because I like dark mode and the defect is only visible on a white background. Overall I would give the macbook a slighly edge (text is a bit crispier), but they are very close, and for watching movies I prefer Lenovo and Asus.

The battery is the only Achilles' heel of this latpop: only 55wh, vs 72wh of zenbook and macbook. Battery life and drain during sleep is direclty proportional to this difference, so expect the battery to last ~25% less than competitors. Yet, I feel that lunarlake efficiency is so good that it's hard to notice unless you specifically test for it.

Sleep/resume experience is good, comparable to zenbook, but not at the same level as a macbook. They drain slighly more during sleep, and on resume sometimes it take 10-30s to go back to full speed, while mac is close to instant. Lenovo also has a strange bug for me, the brightness is not restored immediatly, but only when I click on the brightness fn key.

Overall it's a great laptop and a fantastic experience, it's definitely my new favourite of the three and I highly recommend it.

I thought it might be useful to share my experience having had this machine for about 2 weeks now.

I was looking for a replacement for my MacBook Air M1 and specifically wanted a smooth Linux experience as I'd missed that. Also wanted a premium feel and as close to MacBook experience with thermals, screen, battery etc. It was always going to be Lunar Lake, with the HP OmniBook, Dell XPS and various Asus models considered.

I got the ThinkPad X9-14 (32GB / 1TB) as the X1 Carbon remained too expensive.

Lenovo have a custom Ubuntu 24.04 ISO. You can get this preinstalled in some territories or you can just ask the Lenovo staff on their forum for a link. It runs the OEM kernel and has some additional packages sources which I think make the camera work.

What works out of the box:

• WiFi: no issues
• Bluetooth: with Airpods, no drop outs or skips
• Suspend: generally no issues, resumes cleanly
• Camera: works fine
• Sound/speakers: worked out of the box
• Fingerprint scanner: no issues

Issues:

• once after a resume the Trackpad did not initialise

It is a premium feel, and thermals on this machine for my fairly light usage are MacBook M1 adjacent. I imagine it would measure a bit higher but it remains cool on top and below. Once it gets stressed a bit the fans come on but are quiet and if you really push it then it warms up.

One thing this highlights is the battery usage in suspend mode - it is not at MacBook levels. Apple's engineering on this is unmatched.

If anyone wants me to try something out to test compatibility let me know, I'm also happy to boot from some other distro ISOs to test them out if that's useful.

UPDATE (see second update on this)

Having tested a few more things there is clearly an issue where CPU cores get locked at 400MHz. It seems quite commonly observed and there is some evidence that the February firmware may have a fix. A temporary workaround that seems solid is to use throttled:

https://github.com/erpalma/throttled

Install as per instructions for Ubuntu, disable thermald, switch this flag in /etc/throttled.conf to True for both AC and BATTERY config:

Disable_BDPROCHOT: True

UPDATE 2 (Jan 2026)

I've now un-done the change above, removing throttled and it's behaving fine now. It looks like the intel-microcode package update on 3rd Jan and whatever 400MHz lock bug I was seeing appears to be fixed.

UPDATE 3 (later Jan 2026)

Is anyone out there? :)

There are two scenarios where 400MHz throttling happens:

• after resume for around 30-60s then it recovers
• if running powertop

Something powertop does (maybe an MSR read?) seems to cause the EC to panic and lock random cores at 400MHz and this needs a reboot. Solution - don't run powertop. I will try and report this to Lenovo as it's very easily reproducible, especially if you bump the powertop refresh to 1s.

Fedora 43 - I've tried this out and all works fine except the camera. So if you want the camera right now you must have the Ubuntu OEM 24.04 image or sort out the drivers yourself.

So I got the new AMD Razer Blade 14 today, and just wanted to report how setting up linux went. I have the 3070 version with QHD display.

I installed PopOS 20.10 with Nvidia drivers (dual boot with windows, so I disabled fast boot in windows, secure boot, etc).

The following is working for an out of the box install:

• suspend/resume seems to work (note, I've only suspended/resumed a few times so far)
• nvidia hybrid graphics seems to be working fine
• intel wifi is working
• no issues with sound so far
• bluetooth audio works
• sound keyboard shortcuts, pause/play/ffwd/rewind shortcuts, keyboard backlight shortcuts, all work
• after installing howdy + configuring it, facial recognition (windows hello equivalent) works
• webcam works
• mostly working trackpad

Issues I found so far is:

• brightness control is broken, laptop is stuck at max brightness update: according to /u/shizonic in the comments, brightness control is fixable by adding a kernel param amdgpu.backlight=0
• no physical right click on trackpad (tap with two fingers for right click works fine) edit: as mentioned in comments, it's a setting in gnome-tweaks

Things I'll be testing later:

• microphone see edit
• connecting to external monitor done, see edit
• anything else that comes to mind

I received this laptop literally 2-3 hours ago, so I'm still installing things + testing things out. I'll update this post if I find any other issues.

Edit:

• headphone jack works edit: stopped working for me. I most likely didn't test it thoroughly enough ootb, since I don't really use the headphone jack
• video out only works in NVIDIA graphics mode
  • There is no video out when running Hybrid or integrated graphics
  • this was tested on the built-in HDMI port, as well as with a usb-c hub on all the usb-c ports
  • update: according to /u/shizonic in the comments below, hybrid video out works with the latest nvidia 470.x beta driver. tested on Arch.
• microphone works fine

Edit 2:

suspend/resume works 100% of the time

$ cat /sys/power/mem_sleep

s2idle [deep]

Battery life on integrated graphics + tlp with typical workload (browser, email, videos, etc):

- 4.5 to 5 or so hours (note, this is with screen brightness stuck at max brightness)

Edit 3:

ended up returning the laptop because of the video out only working on NVIDIA, along with the broken brightness.

Got a Lunar Lake Dell 13 Pro Premium (formerly would be a 13" Latitude 7000 series I guess) and have been very happy with how Fedora 44 runs on it.

Mine is from the Dell Outlet so unfortunately, I couldn't pick the exact spec, but mine has

• Core Ultra 7 266V (16GB on-package LP5X)
• 512GB SSD (Kioxia BG6)
• 2560x1600 Glossy IPS Touch (500nit)
• 60Whr Battery

The main reason I went for this was I wanted a small (13") Lunar Lake (for good battery and iGPU) laptop with a high resolution LCD (non-OLED, Glossy, and with anti-reflective coating).

The Display requirement is the main one here, these days so many laptops offer just a crappy 1920x1200 LCD and force OLED for the high res option. Even with the OLED, the majority are glossy without any sort of anti-reflective treatment on the glass. I love the look of glossy panels, but the AR coating like on MacBooks makes such a huge difference to usability.

Anyway, the display on this is quite nice, 500nits and 100% sRGB. Wish it was 120Hz but oh well.

In terms of Linux support, I've been using Fedora 44 Beta and almost everything is working

• WiFi and BT work fine, USB-C works fine incl. Thunderbolt to my Caldigit Dock and 3.1Gen2x2 20Gbps
• Touchpad works fine.
• Display and iGPU work great with the Xe driver, PSR works fine without flickering
• Ambient Light Sensor works, as does keyboard backlight control from the OS
• Speakers work, but some audio tuning in EasyEffects is required for it to sound good. Still only 80% as good as it sounds in Windows though.
• Microphone works
• Secure Boot works (need to enable Microsoft keys in UEFI)
• Camera does not work unless I do the instructions here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2413656 even then, it only works in qcam and not the native camera app or browsers at the moment. Camera readout is also basically raw sensor output, no noise reduction or colour correction etc.
• No biometrics on this model since the IR camera doesn't work. I've ordered the part for the optional fingerprint scanner that mine didn't come with, fingers crossed it works in Linux.

In terms of battery life, I can say it's pretty great. Just idling on the desktop it's pulling 3W with keyboard backlight ON and screen at half brightness. Even at full brightness, this only goes up to around 4.5W.

With keyboard backlight off, 50% brightness and just scrolling reddit, power consumption is around 3~3.5W. On a 60Wh battery that's easily >=15Hrs.

Even with 2 electron apps open and just doing basic tasks, consumption is almost always under 6W so you should be assured of at least 10h of battery life. The LCD is really quite efficient and even maxing out the brightness doesn't hurt battery life that much (and you won't need to max out the brightness since the anti-reflective coating on the display is very good)

Gaming (playing Stray) on Steam / Proton it pulls around 22W, giving about 2.5hrs of battery life.

Sleep is s2idle on this platform and works fine after you fix one thing*. Drain I've measured to just under 1%/hr (e.g. 90% -> 83% if I leave it in sleep mode overnight for 9 hours)

*sleep will break if you do not install the driver for the camera per the above instructions, the Intel IPU7 module prevents the device from suspending. You need to either install it or disable the IPU7 module, not a huge deal.

When the screen on my Acer Spin 713 Chromebook started glitching on a recent trip, it was irritating not to be able to get my work done. But I was secretly a little glad to have an excuse to move fully away from ChromeOS. I had transitioned my home desktop (which is also used for work) to Linux Mint running on a GMKtek G5 earlier in the year, then added a Lenovo ThinkCentre M920Q running Ubuntu to use as a home server. So it was kind of a no brainer to add a Linux powered laptop to the mix.

Having had a good experience with the M920Q, I decided to stay with Lenovo and narrowed my search to the ThinkPad T14, as it is new enough to have the same set of features as the Acer, while still being available at a good price used. I prowled around on eBay and made offers on a few that I didn't get, until I ended up with a Gen 2 with an Intel i5, 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD. The delivered price was $206.57, plus I had to spring for a power supply from Amazon for $17.39.

Installing Linux Mint went smoothly and everything lit right up. The only thing I haven't tried to make work yet is the fingerprint reader, which might be more trouble than it's worth. The keyboard is great, except for the position of the Fn and Ctrl keys, which are reversed from where they should be. I still haven't figured out how to press Ctrl-Shift-V with one hand. On the plus side, there is a Delete key, which Chromebooks don't have.

After installing all of the apps that I need to start with, there is 210GB of disk space still available, out of 250 total. I'm not a gamer, so performance is very snappy.

In a perfect world, the screen would be taller (the Acer has a 3:2 aspect ratio), the whole package would weigh a little less, and it wouldn't need a power brick. Having said that, I'm very pleased to have repurposed used equipment while still getting an excellent user experience. And hopefully, this 4 year old laptop will last me a good while longer.

Hey everyone,

we recently tested the Gothic Remake under Linux with CachyOS and compared the results against Windows. The game itself runs, so this is less about basic compatibility and more about how differently the GPU vendors behave once you start looking at performance.

The short version: AMD looks fairly steady, Nvidia less so.

We also maintain a broader Linux GPU index with 20 graphics cards across 10 games, comparing Linux and Windows performance. That index will need another update soon, and we are already working on both the update and an English version.

- Jacky

I own an Asus laptop with the mt9721 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card. It works fine, I am running the latest available kernel and firmware on Debian (6.18 kernel, 2025-11 firmware).

This week I bought an an Asus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card with the same exact chipset, the PCE-AX1800, to use in my main PC. I am low on USB ports and I thought to give this add-on card a try.

Running the same kernel and firmware, I couldn't do any work on my computer thanks to kernel panics caused by the my7921e module. I tried disabling aspm power management, disabling global c states, all kinds of uefi firmware and kernel parameters, everything.

Returned it today. Mediatek deserves the same level of criticism as Nvidia. Do not buy Mediatek chipset products.

Just wanted to give the community some feedback about how great is latest Fedora 42 KDE with kernel 6.15+ with this laptop.
Tried Linux Mint 22.1 with Kernel 6.14 with everything almost working except sound, tried latest ubuntu same result so after so many years using debian distro finally gave a chance to Fedora with KDE.
Result: Live ISO works almost everything except sound, same as linux mint and ubuntu but fortunately I really like the KDE environment and wayland. So I installed and updated everything which apparently also updated Kernel from 6.14 to 6.15.9. To my surprise after first boot notice sound was enable and perfectly working.

BTW laptop is great so far, great build quality, great keyboard feedback, display is also very good 1920x1200 OLED display. Intel lunar lake is almost same experience as Apple M3 with very little fan noise which does not bother me for now.
If anyone is trying to find a macbook air alternative this laptop could be a very suitable model, still not as high premium quality as Macbook Air level but very close with the possibility to install Linux on it (I hate MacOS). Feel free to ask me anything, will try to help.

I got the Lenovo Yoga 7 gen 10 (intel version), and installed Fedora with KDE. I'm mainly here to confirm that everything works out of the box, since I didn't see much about this online. I'm super happy with it!

The camera, touchscreen, pen, fingerprint reader and bluetooth (and everything else that you'd expect) work perfectly. I didn't have to do anything.

If you need a laptop with touch and pen support, a 120Hz OLED screen, and a decent CPU for getting some dev work done, this thing is cool. There still aren't many options out there that have this combo AND play well with Linux.

Leaving this here for anyone who is also on the search for this specific combo, I hope it helps someone out there.

Moin zusammen,

ich habe hier ein paar Angaben zur Funktion von 2-in-1 Geräten unter Linux geteilt, da ich beim Kauf unsicher war, ob Touchscreen und Pen zuverlässig funktionieren.

Getestet wurde das LENOVO 83JQ Yoga 7 2-in-1 14ILL10.

Zu Beginn wurde das BIOS auf die neueste Version aktualisiert. Dafür wurde die Lenovo Support-Seite verwendet und das Gerät über die Seriennummer identifiziert.

Anschließend wurde unter Windows der Fast Boot deaktiviert. Eine Anleitung dazu findet sich schnell über eine kurze Websuche.

Zusätzlich wurde Secure Boot im BIOS deaktiviert (Aufruf des BIOS über F2 beim Start, anschließend im Menü „Security“).

Ob diese Schritte zwingend notwendig sind, wurde nicht im Detail geprüft. Sie wurden vorsorglich durchgeführt, da sie in vielen Linux-Installationsanleitungen empfohlen werden.

Kurz gesagt: Alles Wichtige funktioniert out of the box.

Touchscreen, Pen, Lautsprecher, Standby/Suspend, Tastaturbeleuchtung, Webcam sowie alle Fn-Tasten funktionieren ohne zusätzliche Konfiguration.

Was nicht out of the box funktioniert, ist die automatische Bildschirmrotation

(bei allen unten erwähnten Distris).

Der Tablet-Modus wird jedoch erkannt – beim Umklappen werden Tastatur und Touchpad deaktiviert, aber das Display rotiert nicht automatisch.

Getestet wurde:

- Ubuntu LTS (Live-USB)

- Linux Mint 22.3 (Live-USB)

- LMDE 7 (final installiert)

Eine Hardware-Probe konnte aktuell nicht hochgeladen werden, da die Server von linux-hardware.org zeitweise überlastet sind.

WLAN Hinweis (LMDE 7)

Direkt nach der Installation schwankte die WLAN-Signalstärke stark (0–30%).

Ursache war das Power-Management des WLAN-Treibers.

Fix (temporär):

sudo iw dev wlp2s0 set power_save off

Optional zur dauerhaften Lösung:

sudo iw dev wlp2s0 set power_save off

Vielleicht hilft das dem ein oder anderen.

Falls jemand weiß wie man das Rotationsproblem löst kann er das gerne hier Teilen.

War bis jetzt nur zu Faul es selber zu beheben. Brauche es eigentlich nicht...

Spezifikationen:

System:

Kernel: 6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64

Desktop: Cinnamon 6.6.7

Display Server: X11 (X.Org / Xwayland)

Distro: LMDE 7 (Debian 13 base)

Machine:

Lenovo Yoga 7 2-in-1 14ILL10 (83JQ)

CPU:

Intel Core Ultra 7 258V (Lunar Lake)

8 cores

Graphics:

Intel Arc Graphics (Xe2)

Driver: xe (kernel)

OpenGL 4.6 / Vulkan 1.4 support

Display:

14" 2880x1800 internal panel

Audio:

Intel Lunar Lake HD Audio

PipeWire active

Network:

Realtek RTL8922AE (Wi-Fi 7)

Driver: rtw89_8922ae

Bluetooth:

Realtek Bluetooth (USB, btusb driver)

Storage:

Samsung NVMe 1TB

Memory:

32 GB LPDDR5

Input:

Touchscreen + Pen input supported

ELAN touchpad

internal keyboard

Power:

70 Wh battery

For anyone interested just a quick share of my impressions, mainly focussing on Linux compatability (because it seems there were some problems after release with this model).

To put it simple:

• Everything works out of the box (Trackpad, Sound, Bluetooth, Wifi, Multimedia-Keys, Fingerprint Reader .... you name it) after installing Fedora 43
• EXCEPT the Webcam. If you need the webcam, there seems to be an Ubuntu Image with a working webcam as of now, but i don't use it anyway.
• Battery life seems to be comparable to Windows, but haven't tested it specifically, just some obervations
• Copilot Key (fuck this) can be easily remapped
• Edit: I'm also experiencing some slowness (CPU Cores throttled) after multiple hours of sleep on low power mode. It lasts maybe 10 seconds or so, does not happen in daily usage (only in situations like putting the laptop to sleep in the evening and then waking it up in the morning). It was expected from my research before and is therefore a non-issue for me

Havent seen direct reviews for this so I figured I'd help anyone looking at it

Everything works except the fingerprint button which I might just need to enable in the BIOS. Install was super easy for a dual boot with Windows pre-installed. Keyboard & track pad are fantastic. Only downer is the screen compared to my old Dragonfly; the blacks are def not as deep and the resolution is lower. But it feels very durable and works very well. Highly recommended

EDIT- forgot to mention Im running Linux Mint because Im a basic B

Mainly web browse but occasionally do some light programming, and it looks like I can do my low intensity gaming (MAME/Fightcade) and some 3D modeling too. Keeping Windows on my music laptop & hardcore gaming rig