“Has anyone installed Linux on this Laptop, dual boot or dedicated? That's my intention with my next laptop & I don't want any "secure boot"-type surprises...”
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I wouldn’t trust a dual boot on this laptop. I had a slightly higher end laptop before this one and dual boot was a nightmare (windows and Ubuntu). I would choose one OS or the other with this laptop or choose something with better hardware capabilities
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Ubuntu 16.04 works fine, but you may have to fill up the 25GB Lenovo partition before installing (if you have the realtek wireless, I think) or the installer may try to shrink that partition instead of the main Windows one, at least kubuntu got confused like this for me on one machine. For dual boot, leave UEFI boot ON, but turn secure boot OFF. The firmware lets you control this. You can also set BIOS mode if you want to but I think UEFI is safer by giving you 2 possible boot menus to use. I had no luck dual booting with BIOS mode and the preinstalled Windows. If you can, I suggest making a backup of the hard drive before you even boot into Windows or try anything (the Windows initial setup is easy to hose and require reloading if you start it but don't complete it in one shot). Fn+F2 will get you in the BIOS on a fresh machine. You can boot the machine with the hidden reset button on the left side and access the factory restore if you need to (ie if you hosed Windows by powering it off during the initial setup) but I wouldn't use it once you have linux installed. It makes a handy backup power button though in the case of keyboard trouble. You could just do your own windows install instead as well. Make sure to turn off the head parking on the hard drive (google wdidle3 - linux can do the same thing with hdparm). Default is parking after 8 seconds which will probably kill the hard drive in a few years.
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