The kids had this Lenovo Ideapad miix510 for school, until the heatsink mount of the motherboard broke and even with my repair attempts it ran hot and noisy.
So it sat there for a while until I found refurbished motherboards for sale, so now it has an i7 with 8GB, a good heatsink mount and a new battery.
Might use it myself on-the-go. It still has Ubuntu on it in dual boot because that's more touchscreen friendly...
#repair #laptoprepair
Installed Debian Trixie with KDE (netinstall from a small USB stick) and "everything just works".
Amazing installing, onboarding and user experience.
Since the laptop has a tablet with detachable keyboard formfactor, I checked touch-friendly desktop environments and it was either KDE or gnome, so that choice was easy... (do not ask, I will not be baited into a gnome usability rant)
And no surprise, this thing now runs much faster than with the windows that was installed on it 🤷♂️
found the pressure sensitive pen that came with it *and* discovered I still had a spare AAAA battery for it
installed Krita and doodled for an hour 😊
(and yes the pen just worked out of the box as well, amazing how far linux has come)
petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼