DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP We have already bricked a few laptops by switching from hybrid to discreet graphics mode before updating the BIOS.
After this I switched to discreet mode for installation. I don't know if that was necessary.
Installation was finicky because of the display drivers. It seemed to work better to go directly to installation rather than "trying it first", but YMMV. It may be useful to set some kind of modeline in GRUB to force basic graphics.
Install nvidia proprietary drivers.
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo apt-get install nvidia-390
After installing the NVidia drivers, the Elantech pointing devices stopped working. This appears to be a bug in Kernel versions 4.18 and 4.19. I used the UKUU app to install kernel version 4.20, and the touchpad and trackpoint devices work.
I ended up switching graphics back to hybrid mode in the BIOS and the keys started working.
https://askubuntu.com/a/528400
As a workaround if running in discreet graphics mode: nvidia-settings -n -a BacklightBrightness=60 (values between 0 and 100)
I used microk8s. I followed the directions to install it, and then ran microk8s.enable dashboard dns. Networking wasn't happening out of the box, and I found I needed sudo iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT.