Lenovo Y520 15IKBN

Lenovo Y520 is a thin-and-light 15.6" workstation/multimedia laptop from Lenovo's 2017 Lenovo Legion lineup.

Lenovo Y520-15IKBN is a good laptop for installing Gentoo Linux:


 * It has powerful CPU for fast compilations
 * SSD (M.2) to make all portage operations very quick
 * All hardware I used in it is supported very well

After proper configuration, every part of the Lenovo Y520 is Linux friendly.

Firmware
Intel released microcode updates that fixes fault on processors. Install the officially published microcode package. For more info see Intel microcode.

Compiler settings
More info is available at:
 * GCC optimization
 * MAKEOPTS
 * EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS

Packages settings
For more info: CPU_FLAGS_X86

USE flags
With Intel Modesetting DDX as video driver add libinput as input driver.