Lenovo Flex 5 Laptop, 14.0" FHD Touch Display, AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, 16GB RAM, 512GB Storage, AMD Radeon Graphics, Windows 11 Home, Storm Grey

I've successfully installed Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint on this machine without any problems. The sole challenge I faced was getting the fingerprint unlock feature to work with those distributions, though I attribute that more to driver limitations than hardware.Aside from that, it functions fairly well as a Windows 11 Professional laptop too.

I got this for a lighter weight machine for traveling and classwork. I ran it once with the installed Windows 10, which immediately "upgraded" (ahem) to Windows 11. But I was able to install Linux PopOS very quickly, and it works great with this machine! The touch screen, touch pen, etc., all work without a hitch. That made it possible to get rid of the pre-installed spyware, bloated apps, and security risks with an open source secure Linux that does everything Windows does plus a lot more. It *is* possible to setup a dual-boot (Linux plus Windows), but that requires some knowledge of the Windows registry and UEFI boot. At first I thought it might be useful to keep Windows in case I ran into problems but that turned out to be unnecessary so i just took over the entire (and fast) SSD for Linux.

This was a recommended purchase. The laptop features are great only issue I have is sometimes the wifi and internet icons do not appear to reconnect the internet. Other than that it works excellent

To clarify, I have the 16GB RAM/512GB SSD/ Ryzen 5 5500U model. The battery life, camera quality, touch screen, and the power of this laptop are exactly what they should be for this price range. The speed and power of the laptop is what has impressed me the most. I am a music producer and I need at least 16GB of Ram and the 512GB of storage is pretty good as well. I also like to game a little. I was able to download and install over 60GB of musical software, which would usually take me a whole day or two to fully set up, in about 30 minutes. I am able to play Fortnite at around 30-40 fps, Valorant at around 60-80 fps, and Minecraft at around 60+ fps, which is plenty for my own needs right now, as I mostly use it for music production. So far it runs everything I bought it for smoothly and has at least met, if not exceeded my expectations. After reading many of the worse reviews, I tried to prepare myself for some flaws, but I honestly like everything about it. The brightness isn’t as bad as some people say either, 250 nits on this display is honestly plenty for probably 90% of the situations I use it in. Even if there is sunlight, I can still see the screen enough. It’s not like I’ll be gaming in the sunlight, if anything doing a musical performance outside during the day would potentially be a challenge but not impossible. Overall if you are someone who needs a good laptop for a good price, this really is a good choice. It’s my first time using Lenovo as I have used HP for 8+ years. I’m very impressed

Yesterday, I turned on my Lenovo Flex 5 Laptop and opened my email account, and this happened. This wonderful laptop continued to delete all my active emails. I use my mousse and don't touch the keyboard unless to type. The factory upper keys or the functions keys are out of alignment and appear to wiggle in appearance. Beware don't let this happen to you. If only I could have recovered my lost emails. I switched to another outlook folder, and the laptop continued to delete them all as fast as it could. Moved to the next folder and every page I switched to, the Lenovo just keep on deleting the contents. What a nightmare. Even when I switched to the trash bin, I saw my files disappear forever. Gone forever! My only recourse was to turn the thing off.The worst mistake I ever made with this laptop was not to buy a Warranty program for this device. I would have sent this thing back forever. I trusted the name. No More. AND FOEVER. And I got burnt with missing my very my important emails being deleted . And now I only have a lame duck piece of Sheet. I am afraid to turn it it on again. Avoid the another nightmare, and just stay in reality, Do Not buy this product. It will harm your lifestyle.I have not dropped or even miss handled this laptop. It showed up in terrorist mode.

I got this laptop as an IT student to do coding, studying, and some IT projects. Also the touch screen was a draw to me for reading and things like that. This laptop has definitely exceeded my expectations. My old laptop was an acre aspire with an dedicated Nvidia GPU, but this laptop blows that one out of the water.I’m not a gamer but I played GTA V and Skyrim on high settings with no lag what so ever. My old laptop could barley handle medium low graphics. So to me that tells me if this laptop can handle a complex game like GTA V on near full settings, it can definitely handle other graphics intensive applications no problem.I also have Ubuntu installed alongside Windows and it boots insanely fast (like 5 seconds after pressing power).This is my first AMD chip laptop and touch screen one and it’s been great so far.The screen is also beautiful and big enough for my needs. I’m glad I took a chance on it.However, there was a ton of bloat ware/ free apps I had to un install and also a lot of startup apps Windows 11 likes to include. After removing those it’s boots and performs faster. Also, there are a ton of things you can do with the Lenovo Vantage app. Such as conservation mode on the battery (which is recommended if you keep it plugged in a lot).