ThinkPenguin Korora Notebook

Touchpad
The Touchpad takes a lot of physical physical space under the keyboard, and it's easy to accidentally move the mouse cursor while typing. One can address this by enabling the Synaptics palm detection:

is installed by the ; see synaptics driver installation instructions.

Backlight
The kernel parameter  must be added to make the backlight adjustable.

The backlight setting is not persistent between reboots, but it is persistent between suspend. Create a local service to save and apply the backlight setting: