Best Linux distro for convertible laptop.

ValiantUK91

ValiantUK91

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Can anyone point me in the right direction for a distro to use for a lenovo flex 15.

I've tried mx linux and the touchscreen worked while booting off of a usb drive but after full install it no longer worked I'm currently running debian buster, (touchscreen not working)

Looking to gift my brother this laptop as I'm going to build myself a pc again. He prefers Linux over Windows and would like the touchscreen working but unsure of which distro is the best for this.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance
 
I'm not too familiar with touchscreens but I'm thinking this may be more to do with the desktop environment that you are using, rather than the distro itself. What DE are you using and have you tried others?
 
Managed to get it working straight out of the box using opensuse tumbleweed with gnome3 not sure why it wouldn't work with others perhaps the packages were not installed although I thought they would have been on Ubuntu.
 
Back to square one, just turned on the laptop again and touchscreen is no longer working I've ran HWinfo and it is listed as a USB mouse so it's been detected but not working.

Any ideas? Starting to pull my hair out with this and I've not got much left to pull :p
 
Tried pop and manjaro, touchscreen is not working out of the box on either, checked if the touchscreen was listed using the terminal and it was on both distros.

Thinking there has got be some drivers missing that I can't seem to find anywhere.
 
Can’t speak for a Lenovo, but my HP Probook’s touchscreen works fine in Ubuntu.
 
ValiantUK91 said:
Thinking there has got be some drivers missing that I can't seem to find anywhere.
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Drivers are part of the kernel. Debian didn't work because it doesn't support proprietary software OOTB, and even if you did get the screen working, you'd have a job getting WiFi to work unless you used the non-free iso.

I imagine SUSE Tumbleweed worked because it has a very up-to-date kernel, 5.6. It probably stopped working because there was an update which conflicted/changed a dependency which meant the screen stopped working.

If I were you, I would try installing Ubuntu 20.04 which ships with kernel 5.4. It is released today. Failing that, maybe PCLinuxOS which ships with 5.5. Unfortunately, as you've found out, this is going to be trial and error.
 
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