Less of an issue, more of a moan really!
Bought myself a Lenovo Ideapad 120S for the princely sum of £130 from PC World. The idea was for it to run Linux, rather than the crippled Windows 10S it arrives with (however, at the minute, they’re running a free upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, so I ran the upgrade prior to installing Linux, so I’ll be able to go back to Pro if I ever wanted).
Anyhow, tried both Ubuntu 18.04 and Mint 19, and have decided to go with Mint – whilst I don’t mind the new Gnome 3 layout of Ubuntu, I think I prefer the standard layout of the default Mint and I CBA changing Ubuntu to match (or using Ubuntu Mate) as they’re very similar anyhow.
Regardless, I tried both on Live USB and they all worked fine so I installed Linux Mint. Some issues with EFI and Secureboot meant that I took a couple of installs to try and get it working. However, we got there. And then on boot of the new install, so my function keys work? Do they hell!
They worked perfectly well within the Live Boot, but now it’s installed, it’s like the machine has forgotten how to see them. Annoying, but not a deal breaker and not something that I can be bothered to try and fix at the minute. But why can the Live install work, but not when installed?! Seems a bit odd.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
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