--- title: "Installing Linux on a Lenovo LEGION Y520: A Log" description: "Over the weekend some Windows settings got on my nerves a bit, so I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS." author: "kidneyweakx" published: 2019-03-24T00:00:00.000Z updated: 2026-06-02T17:14:35.523Z lang: en tags: ["程式筆記", "Linux"] canonical: https://kidneyweakx.com/blog/19log-0324-y520-linux?lang=en alternate_zh_tw: https://kidneyweakx.com/blog/19log-0324-y520-linux.md alternate_ja: https://kidneyweakx.com/blog/19log-0324-y520-linux.md?lang=ja --- # Installing Linux on a Lenovo LEGION Y520: A Log ### **Intro** Over the weekend some Windows settings got on my nerves a bit, so I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. *The reason I'm writing this down is that laptops honestly aren't very Linux-friendly, so I'm logging all these little annoyances\~\~*
1. First, of course, you burn Ubuntu onto a boot drive. I used [rufus](https://rufus.ie/) + [ubuntu18.04](http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/) 2. Then go into the BIOS and switch the type to AHCI (*small rant: on a Lenovo you have to poke that little pinhole, super annoying*) 3. I picked install straight from boot. After all, I wasn't going to dual-boot. My heart ached for exactly one second the moment Windows got wiped 4. What came next was probably the most painful part, since I was still getting used to a new system. 5. The very first thing to change is definitely the input method. I swapped out the garbage NewChewing (新酷音) for hime's 詞音, which is closer to Microsoft's input method on Windows. Much more comfortable 6. Next I started setting up the rest of my environment: Ruby on Rails, Anaconda 7. But when I went to shut down, it wouldn't shut down. I could only force it off. OMG 8. Looked it up online and found it might be a GPU problem. Tried stuff for ages, added a pile of commands, and then shutdown hit a soft lockup...... 9. In the end I found I could install additional drivers in Software Updates. Once the Nvidia driver was installed, things got a lot better 10. Then the color temperature of the built-in night mode was super gross, so I installed Redshift 11. Noticed the battery drain was insane, so I installed TLP and powertop 12. The anaconda environment wasn't set up properly, so I switched to zsh and set up the path again 13. The overall zsh interface really does look a lot nicer 14. Installed peek, a gif screen capture tool 15. Mounting the hard drive took forever. At first I even got the `/etc/fstab `file wrong, booted into emergency mode, and spent ages fixing it 16. The rest were all small issues. It took a whole day, but I've finally escaped the clutches of Windows