The Lenovo Ideapad Slim 5 hardware works well with Linux. Unfortunately, in 2025 the trackpad became flaky in Linux but still works fine in Windows. This seems to be a common problem with Lenovo. I may have found a fix in customizing boot options.
I don't use suspend to disk or the fingerprint reader. Everything else is great.
Added a few options to the grub boot. Here is what fedora's /etc/default/grub looks like
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.luks.uuid=luks-6b0fa45c-49ee-4b74-a191-e84d6410cc4d rhgb quiet i8042.notimeout i8042.nomux"
Have not tried this on other distros yet
Kubuntu 24.x and later works great on the Ideapad slim 5. .
The calameres installer is crashing when there are LUKS partitions--even when the the install is supposed to ignore them.
Installed version 42 and everything works fine. Again, I don't know about suspend to disk.