Formally only thinkpad line is supports linux and allows hw upgrades. I am not sure if that excludes customer electronics models such as idea pad. There are rumors, not sure if true - I have exclusively enterprise thinkpad experience, that upgrades may be somewhat restricted in bios for non-enterprise models.
You can verify the ssd, by putting back the original and installing to that. Also, new HW requires new kernel, some times bleeding edge. It is little painful for updates, but reasonably easy to use current kernel in the likes of Ubuntu and/or Fedora. I cannot recommend openSuse for new HW with bleeding edge kernel. That's all I can say from my experience. Tomas On Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 11:05 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that Lenovo is continuing it's linux support in its new laptops. > Is there any reason why I could not install linux on the Lenovo Laptop > IdeaPad 5 15ALC05 82LN006CUS AMD Ryzen 7 5000 Series 5700U (1.80GHz) 8 GB > Memory 512 GB PCIe SSD AMD Radeon Graphics and upgrade the memory and the > hard drive? > > Related question: are laptop SSD drives interchangable from one brand to > another? > > TIA, > > Rich > >
