Lenovo IdeaPad on Omarchy

The IdeaPad is Lenovo’s consumer line, which means it is not one machine. Twenty-two issues in the Omarchy tracker name an IdeaPad, spread across a 2015 AMD FX laptop, several Alder Lake and Ryzen thin-and-lights, and gaming models with discrete NVIDIA. Everything below was checked against the v4.0.4 source tree and against issues open on 16 September 2026.

Verdict

Bronze. Not because IdeaPads are bad Linux machines, but because the line is wide and Omarchy does nothing for it.

The positive evidence is indirect but real. Owners of an IdeaPad 1 15IAU7, an IdeaPad 3 15ALC6, an IdeaPad 5 14ALC05 and an IdeaPad 5 with a Ryzen 5600H are all filing bug reports from a running Omarchy desktop. Those reports are about the Quickshell bar, plugin status, Chromium picture-in-picture and browser scrolling, not about dead Wi-Fi or a silent speaker. A machine that can file a bug about the top bar is a machine that booted.

The negative evidence is specific. One variant class cannot complete the installer at all, and Omarchy ships no IdeaPad enablement of any kind, so anything the machine needs beyond stock Arch is on you.

What works

Modern Intel and AMD IdeaPads reach a usable desktop. The reporters above run Hyprland 0.56.2 on Omarchy 4.0.0 through 4.0.3, on both i915 Alder Lake graphics and AMD Radeon integrated graphics, on Btrfs over LUKS.

Wi-Fi hardware works on the models reported. The two Wi-Fi issues in this bucket are interface problems, not radio problems. In #3458 an IdeaPad Gaming 3 owner thought the Wi-Fi applet was frozen; suraj-9849 pointed out that Tab moves focus in the Impala TUI, and DHH confirmed the discoverability gap. That was 3.x. In #7257 an IdeaPad 5 on 4.0.0 connects to a WPA2-Enterprise network, but the Quickshell network panel shows it as disconnected. Both are software.

The fingerprint reader is at least detected. omarchy-hw-fingerprint lists Goodix vendor ID 27c6 among the vendors it treats as fingerprint hardware, so setup offers enrollment on IdeaPads that carry one.

What breaks

NVIDIA MX150 aborts the installer. In #7947, still open, an IdeaPad 330-15IKB (machine type 81FE, i7-8550U, MX150) fails during the hardware phase. omarchy-hw-nvidia-without-gsp classifies the GP108 as pre-Turing, so nvidia.sh asks for nvidia-580xx-dkms and lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils, pacman answers target not found, and the whole install stops. The reporter saw it on 4.0 and on 3.8.x, and the same code is still in the v4.0.4 tree. His workaround was to add exit 0 at the top of /mnt/usr/share/omarchy/install/hardware/nvidia.sh and resume with omarchy-apply-system. See /fix/nvidia-drivers-omarchy-4/.

Pre-2016 AMD models can lose the console. #8544 is an IdeaPad Z50-75 (machine type 80EC, AMD FX-7500 with Radeon R7) where the ISO boots, prints No irq handler lines, then goes black. heliohsilva asked the reporter to attach an external monitor; the installer had been running the whole time, and the reporter could finally read it on the external screen. The internal panel output is the casualty, and the same firmware is why F2 does not reach the BIOS on that machine. Related: /fix/black-screen-after-login/.

Hybrid NVIDIA models get the hybrid tax. #9151, open, is an IdeaPad 5 with a Ryzen 5600H and an RTX 3050 where Chromium and Brave scroll up and down forever after an update. The reporter fixed it by disabling hardware acceleration. spencerflagg reproduced it on a different hybrid laptop, traced it to the Chromium 152 ANGLE Vulkan backend, and recommends --use-angle=egl instead, which keeps GPU compositing. See /fix/chromium-flicker-hardware-acceleration/ and /hardware/hybrid-gpu/.

Fingerprint enrollment can fail even when the reader is present. In #2064, on 3.0.1, lsusb shows a Goodix 27c6:55b4, but enrollment ends with Impossible to enroll: GDBus.Error:net.reactivated.Fprint.Error.NoSuchDevice: No devices available. Omarchy detecting a reader and libfprint supporting that exact chip are two different things. 4.0.3 lists a fingerprint reader improvement during setup by powderluv, but nothing in the tree confirms 55b4 specifically. See /fix/fingerprint-enrollment-fails/ and /hardware/fingerprint/.

Installer bugs, mostly historical. #7996 from an IdeaPad 3 collected several 4.0.0 installer failures, including fix-synaptic-touchpad.sh hanging at modprobe psmouse. PR #7236 made that script non-fatal and shipped in 4.0.1; the reporter confirmed the fix. The same owner’s follow-up #8152 is a login loop, but it came from driving omarchy-apply-system by hand rather than using the installer, so do not read it as an IdeaPad fault. See /fix/install-fails-or-stalls/ and /fix/login-loop-or-password-not-accepted-sddm/.

One report you can ignore: #5405 looked like Lenovo laptops firing a phantom lid-open event, but pkwagner retracted it himself within the hour. The cause was his own keyd virtual keyboard, not the hardware.

What Omarchy does for this model

Nothing specific. Grepping the v4.0.4 source tree for IdeaPad returns no matches in bin/, install/hardware/, default/ or migrations/. The single script under install/hardware/lenovo/ matches the DMI string Yoga Pro 7 14IAH10 and will never fire on an IdeaPad. The speaker tuning framework in default/audio/tunings/ currently ships one tuning, and it is for the Dell XPS.

What an IdeaPad does get is the generic pass in install/hardware/all.sh: Intel video acceleration, thermald, lpmd, SOF firmware and the IPU7 camera script on Intel models, nvidia.sh and vulkan.sh where a GPU matches, Bluetooth, the wireless regulatory domain, and the F-key and Synaptics scripts.

If you want to check what DMI strings your machine exposes, run cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name /sys/class/dmi/id/product_family. Lenovo puts a four character machine type in product_name: reporters here show 82KU, 82VY, 82LM, 81FE and 80EC. omarchy-hw-match greps both fields, which is why a quirk aimed at IdeaPads would have to key on product_family.

Variants

Prefer a 2021 or newer Intel or AMD IdeaPad with integrated graphics only. Every IdeaPad in the tracker that is running a working desktop is in that group.

Be careful with anything carrying an NVIDIA MX150 or another Maxwell, Pascal or Volta part. That is the one variant with a confirmed, currently unfixed installer abort.

Treat IdeaPad Gaming and IdeaPad 5 models with a GTX 1650 or RTX 3050 as hybrid laptops first and IdeaPads second. Read /hardware/nvidia/ before you buy.

Avoid pre-2016 AMD models such as the Z50-70 and Z50-75 unless you enjoy the work. They can install, but only after you solve a display problem that also blocks your own BIOS.

Snapdragon X IdeaPads are not covered by the public x86_64 ISO. Generic Snapdragon X support merged in PR #8672 on 13 September 2026, two days before 4.0.4, but none of it reached the shipped 4.0.4 tree. That is experimental, not a buying recommendation.

Before you install

• Identify your GPU first. lspci | grep -i nvidia. If it returns an MX150 or similar, expect the installer to stop, and plan for the exit 0 workaround.
• If the installer goes black on an older model, plug in an external monitor before you conclude it hung.
• Update the BIOS from Windows while you still can. The worst report here is on a machine whose firmware could not be reached at all, from a cold boot or from Windows advanced startup, which also blocked the update.
• Install from the current ISO, not a 4.0.0 one. Several installer bugs in this bucket were fixed in 4.0.1. See /releases/v4.0.4/.
• Use the installer. Do not hand-run omarchy-apply-system unless you are recovering, which is how the login loop above happened.
• Test fingerprint, sleep and the webcam during your return window. Those subsystems are marked unknown on this page because nobody has reported them either way.

Related

• /hardware/lenovo-legion/ and /hardware/lenovo-yoga/ for the rest of the Lenovo consumer range
• /hardware/nvidia/ and /fix/nvidia-drivers-omarchy-4/
• /hardware/hybrid-gpu/ and /fix/hybrid-gpu-laptop-black-screen-aq-drm-devices/
• /hardware/amd-gpu/ and /hardware/intel-gpu/
• /hardware/wifi/ and the manual chapter on networking
• /hardware/submit/ if you own an IdeaPad and can confirm or correct anything above