cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52490318

As you have probably seen, the new Legion Space update is mostly ads on the home screen. The only way to avoid this is by turning off your WiFi before opening Legion Space and turning off “Automatically Update Resources”.

Instead use LLT (Lenovo Legion Toolkit). Open source alternative.

https://github.com/XKaguya/LenovoLegionToolkit

Incase you are not aware what Legion Space is:

Lenovo Legion Space is Lenovo’s unified gaming hub app for Legion devices that lets users launch games, tune performance, tune CPU/GPU and fan profiles, and control RGB lighting from a single interface, effectively replacing or complementing Lenovo Vantage on newer Legion systems by centralizing game-focused controls and organizing titles across services for quick access on Legion laptops and handhelds such as the Legion Go, in a role similar to other OEM gaming hubs like Asus Armoury Crate or Acer PredatorSense.

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
    2·
    15 days ago

    I just wiped the volume and installed Ubuntu. So far a year w/o enshitification. Well, except for the fact that Lenovo does not support Linux, so I have to boot a Win10 usb drive to update the bios and there’s a sound card problem that was recently fixed by open-source devs and it’s a matter of time before I get the updated driver (unless I compile the kernel myself, which I could do, but meh). Steam games work great, I can run LLMs with LLMStudio locally, and I get to use most of my 32G RAM.

    • alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      15 days ago

      Lenovo doesn’t support linux? Also are you able to control fan speeds, keyboard lighting and other things on linux? If yes, which distro are you using?

      • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
        1·
        14 days ago

        They support thinkpad, not legion. Yes, linux has fan speed control, etc. I’m using Ubuntu, but any distro should work. You might need to install software.

          • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
            2·
            13 days ago

            The only thing I see is a sound card issue. Someone apparently fixed it recently, but it will take time for the kernel update to filter down to us. You can compile the fix and kernel yourself, though.

            For the moment I’m just running a force restart on alsa when the sound stops. A search on legion linux sound problem should lead you to the git repo eventually.