Large enterprises are dumping laptops that don’t support Win II “out of the box”, so they are bargains for linux or people willing to work around the MS requirements.
Good news. More Linux installations to come. 
A few notes:
Ublue seems to be extremely active!
Now they have preconfigured images for
- Framework Laptop
- Microsoft surface
- Acer Laptops
- SteamDeck
there are some special changes, afaik a custom Kernel for the surfaces, so if these images work, this should be an awesome and easy experience!
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Today (or yesterday) was announced the Fedora Slimbook, I assume it works out-of-box
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That looks like a nice laptop. Good specs.
You can reach the contact link from the top of the home page. – links there. The ‘buy’ link allows you to get more detail and the company link then has the contact link.
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Well for now I got a bargain Thinkpad T470 off fleabay. Pretty impressed for a few hundred bucks. Installed Fedora but I had to disable SecureBoot in BIOS before installing. Should I turn that back on now I have Fedora installed, or does Fedora need it to stay off?
thanks
Fedora should not have any problems with secure boot being active. It is only with certain drivers that secure boot would need to be disabled and that is because secure boot requires that all kernel modules be signed.
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Thanks Jeff. I’ll turn it back on
Which version did you get? The one with the intel GPU only or the one with the additional nvidia dGPU (optimus version)?
For the benefit of the wider linux community, please upload the (sanitized) Linux Hardware Probe and post the ID here. This will make it easy for you to check the status of other components in the event of problems in the future. For that price I would not expect a battery that gives original runtimes.
yay! I have a new Lenovo+Fedora challenge!!
I just picked up a very beautiful looking Lenovo Yoga Book (YB1-X91L)
please see: Lenovo Support
A great video review by MobileTechReview
While the above photo shows the Android model (which does NOT run Linux), this one seems to be running Windows 10 Pro (which obviously I will break!)
Some lovely folks in the XDA community have already been busy for many years now trying to get this to play nicely with Linux!
To date the most comprensive work appears to have been done here: git repo by jekhor
The majority of the testing has been done for Ubuntu & Debian.
BUT I think it would be amazing to get Fedora running on this wonderful Lenovo device.
Some of the stumbling blocks, have seemed to be with the HALO Keyboard, screen rotation and various sound/mic issues.
I would love to hear any thoughts, ideas and opinions from all you amazing techie/geeky folks!
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Did you mean YB1-X91L, whch has 3 LHDB probes?
yes, my bad! typo error! now amended. Thanks @gnwiii
as you can see all the probes have been done on debian based distros.
I saw one user (in a telegram group) that had a Fedora boot image in a screenshot, but this was posted back in 2019/2020. I have reached out to him and am awaiting a response!
Obviously Fedora Linux has come on a long way since then, so I hope it may work now in 2023!
I am awaiting delivery at the moment, so I am busy reading background and wanting to compile relevant information: Ye Olde Fedora Yoga Book
Hmm. Not certain to be honest! I think the Video RAM is shared with (or uses) the normal RAM installed, if that answers the question? It seems a nice little machine for the money, but I am still hunting for something more substantial (with bigger screen), for Fedora use
Yes, but hardware support is generally the same (only the package names change) until you get into non-free drivers, so if LHDB has probes that show kernel drivers working, Fedora should be good.
I have spotted what looks like a possible bargain. Grateful for any comments on this, with a view to being a quick solution to getting over to Fedora (1.5TB covers me nicely), and maybe upgrading later. Would this be a good buy in the opinions of the eggspurts here? 
You can check for linux issues on the [Linux Hardware Database (LHDB)](https ://linux-hardware.org). You may find entries for this model differ in wifi and SSD hardware. Reputable vendors do provide full details of what you will get. If the wifi hardware doesn’t have good support for linux ask about swapping for a different wifi module.
Thanks George. I struggle to use that database, have very little understanding of what it all means. I do see that most things say “working”, so i will take a gamble on it being functional on Fedora, maybe with a few tweaks but hopefully not many.
I am asking more about the performance. Does this machine sounds usable on Fedora? i5 10th gen, 16gb RAM, Intel UHD Graphics 620
It’s a cheapie so not looking for blazing speeds, just usable for web browsing, email, and a few documents here and there. Once i get my macbook sold, I will be upgrading, hopefully to a Dell XPS 15.
Thanks