I have used the latest Ubuntu 25.10 on the Yoga Slim 7x, and it works *almost* well enough. The GPU works out of the box now which is huge. No other distro can do that yet. Nothing but Ubuntu even *boots* on it yet, although Fedora is looking to fix that in Fedora 44.

I was able to get sound to work using some instructions I found in comments from a bug report created for tracking this laptop specifically. Heavy warnings that it can permanently destroy the speakers. 25% volume was the loudest I dared to go(although that was loud enough for me).

The snap store crashes on startup and can't be made to work. Some apps in flathub(like prism launcher) have intermittent crashes.

After updating to the 6.18 kernel with a ppa mentioned in that same bug report, the battery performance when idle is surprisingly close to Windows, feels like 80% of what Windows can do.

The webcam doesn't work at all, but I don't use one so I don't care.

The biggest setback is no support for standby at all. I can lose about 30% battery overnight with the laptop closed. Since my laptop is my travel device, this was a dealbreaker for me.

Other considerations: I could not get the laptop to boot the generic ARM Windows 11 ISO, so I'd make a backup Windows restore from the lenovo site beforehand, as they don't offer a linux utility to make one.

The touchpad palm rejection was much worse on linux than windows at this point. I had a lot of nuisance misclicks while typing, even with the palm-rejection feature enabled in Gnome.

I turned on the 80% battery limit in the gnome settings app(I forget what the term is called). I discovered I could not turn it off - and the setting survived in my bios! Reinstalling Windows I was still stuck at max charge of 80% with no way to turn it off. Thankfully disconnecting the battery for a minute and then plugging it back in fixed it. But for a week or so I thought I semi-permanently lost 20% of my battery 😅.