Since then, I've used principly as a lightweight documentation machine for recording artefacts and the like, and it's been absolutely rock solid, but I've been aware that it's fairly resource tight (4GB RAM and 64GB eMMC storage) for the full version of Ubuntu.
Despite that, the machine was responsive and was pleasant to use with a decent keyboard and screen, despite being not particulary heavy or bulky to carry round.
However, it was still running 24.10LTS and the time had come when it really should be upgraded.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu's got bigger with each upgrade, and now ideally needs 6GB memory and 25GB disk space, so I decided that since I wasn't actively using the machine at the moment, this was the time to change distros to something a little less resource intensive.
I've had quite a lot of success recently with Xubuntu 26.04 on both my old T440 Thinkpad and my Yoga 11e, both of which have only 4GB RAM, but which have 128GB SSD drives for internal storage, Xubuntu only needing around 2GB RAM and a bit under 10GB disk space.
So this afternoon I sidegraded the IdeaPad to Xubuntu given there's no easy way to upgrade either the memory or storage on the machine.
Slightly tedious, but the install went off without a hitch, and while I had to install Notable, Kate, Focuswriter and a couple of other programs that I use in the documentation process, including Cheese to drive my little endosocope camera, everything just worked
Having the same version of Xubuntu on my three work machines makes maintenance and updates easier to keep in sync, valuable when the machines are occasionally used offline
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