Linux (Arch/KDE) on a Lenovo Yoga C13
With ChromeOS now end of life there are many cheap Chromebooks on the market. Inspired by a post and video by VKC of "Veronica Explains" on flashing UEFI firmware and installing various Linux distributions, I excitedly bought a really nice Lenovo Yoga C13 Ryzen 5 on eBay.
I followed the guides below and everything including installing Arch with KDE using the "archinstall" script worked fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oyqrrXTLM
Chrultrabook Docs: https://docs.chrultrabook.com
Chrultrabook Forums: https://forum.chrultrabook.com
MrChromebox script homepage: https://mrchromebox.tech
There are a few things to get used to, including a minimal keyboard layout with some missing keys (including super key, function key and delete).
I couldn't find a way to activate keyboard backlight, until I found 'brightnessctl' which on arch is installed and used as follows:
Keyboard backlight
sudo pacman -Sy brightnessctl
brightnessctl --list
brightnessctl --device='chromeos::kbd_backlight' set 100
Job Done!
Postscript:
All was not quite well with regular 'freezing' after sleep - appears to have been resolved with the latest firmware upgrade, which did not require battery disconnection.
cd; curl -LO mrchromebox.tech/firmware-util.sh && sudo bash firmware-util.sh
Took longer than the 90 seconds that the script output suggested. Don't panic!