Using Ubuntu Mint on Lenovo G405

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Frankly it was not a good experience. VLC kept hanging, lots of small issues kept popping up. After some tries, I had an epiphany one day and I decided to install ubuntu-desktop package and it got me gnome. VLC does not crash anymore, system is more responsive, sleep does not work yet but that is because I decided to select LightDM instead of GDM as display-manager.
This laptop seems to have some issues in general like mal-working MTP, a mysterious device that keeps showing up in windows and eventually malfunctions. It's supposed to be something related to lenovo energy management. But I am not sure, and sadly being out of production and more than six year old, there's very little hope of getting better drivers etc for this one.
So I'm going to get a new battery and put it in there, and at least that will make this thing run for a couple more years. Thankfully hardware-wise it's fairly complete. Only thing I am not sure about is - if it needs a cooling system overhaul. I have cleaned up the fan but this thing's CPU being anemic does not want to go above 65degrees even at high load so I don't think it needs any extra cooling.
So that's all for this one. Ciao!

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