Review on 14" Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ALC05 1920x1080, AMD Ryzen 3 5300U 2.6 GHz, RAM 8 GB, SSD 256 GB, AMD Radeon Graphics, Windows 10 Gray, 82LM0035RU, English layout by Wiktor Pozna ᠌

I decided on a functional laptop with a screen size of 13 to 14 inches to install Linux on for certain duties outside the house. With a dual-core Intel Core i3, 8GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD, I went with a Lenovo. The keyboard, touchpad, and build quality were all appealing. There is sufficient brightness, but I won't sit on the beach on a sunny day. It does not heat up at all while performing routine duties like web browsing and running a few certain programs, and it is normally quiet. Without games, a full 8–10-hour workday will be long. I believe you can greatly extend battery life if you optimize the BIOS and system. The touchpad did not function with Linux Xubuntu 20.04.2. Nothing worked out of the box despite trying several distributions and versions. After all, the touchpad earned after being shoveled in numerous directions. In the GRUB bootloader, one line had to be registered. Here is a guide that, maybe, someone will find useful, using Xubuntu 20.04 as an example (but I believe it applies to any Ubuntu distribution kit): 1. Enter alt+ctrl+t at the terminal 2. The command sudo nano /etc/default/grub is used. 3. Type your password in. 4. Locate the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" and add the quotation marks around "i8042. Nopnp=1 pci=nocrs" so that the line reads GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042. Nopnp=1 pci=nocrs." 5. Use the keys Ctrl+o to save changes. 6. Press ctrl+x to close the editor. 7. ate the GRUB bootloader - We type sudo ate-grub on the terminal. 8. Type reboot in the terminal to restart. Enjoy the touchpad after a reboot! I'll write my review after using it for a month. With Linux running on it, I was able to fix a further issue: the laptop's failure to exit standby mode (sleep or hibernation). Furious in particular when shutting the lid. It probably functions on all laptops. The problem was easily solved. You must unquestionably allocate a separate partition for swap when installing Linux. Swap is typically found as a file in the system's root partition. The standby mode's problem will be fixed. Awaken in a half-second. To reduce concerns about stability, it is ideal to divide the disk into three partitions during installation: swap, root, and home.