Just thought I’d drop in to report this. Thanks to the community and mrchromebox!
Everything worked out of the box except for audio, which just took a tiny bit of massaging and manually setting volume limits to avoid speaker damage.
Linux Mint 22 is ubuntu based, however it doesn’t pack in the Snap Store and it has an updated kernel. Linux kernel 6.8. It’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 and is a monolithic kernel with GNU userland.
I did UEIF full install - linux mint install via booting via flash-drive.
Touchpad, gestures, touchscreen, pressure sensitive stylus, wifi, Bluetooth, etc. all just work!
Also, other than having an eMMC drive - I 10/10 recommend this device. Can be found cheap with 8th gen i5, 8gb ram, 128gb eMMC. Very nice 3:2 screen, keyboard & trackpad are nice enough, hinge is very nice.
Also dropped a 512gb micro-sd card into the slot for slower file-storage, considering getting a SAMSUNG FIT Plus 3.1 256gb to leave permanently in the usb-a slot. (I believe that is about as-fast as the eMMC).
Considering I got this under $100 renewed, and everything works, I’m impressed. Mostly doing AWS cloud development with jetbrains rider and vs code, running gimp and web browser etc.