Wanted to purchase laptop with touch (convertible; 2 in 1; laptop cum tablet). Could not find Linux friendly, Linux certified. Vendor was of opinion that any device with MS Window 8, will be hard to use with Linux.
Can any one suggest make and model which works well with Linux?
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, H.S.Rai hardeep.rai@gmail.com wrote:
Wanted to purchase laptop with touch (convertible; 2 in 1; laptop cum tablet). Could not find Linux friendly, Linux certified. Vendor was of opinion that any device with MS Window 8, will be hard to use with Linux.
Can any one suggest make and model which works well with Linux?
My experience; anything can boot linux except nvidia. NEVER buy nvidia.
Revant
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, H.S.Rai hardeep.rai@gmail.com wrote:
Wanted to purchase laptop with touch (convertible; 2 in 1; laptop cum tablet). Could not find Linux friendly, Linux certified. Vendor was of opinion that any device with MS Window 8, will be hard to use with Linux.
Can any one suggest make and model which works well with Linux?
I recently bought a Lenovo ultrabook U310 touchscreen (with Windows 8.1) 24GB Sandisk SSD, 500GB WD HDD. 4GB RAM, i5 3rd gen, Intel graphics.
Before I blow away Windows, I have tried out Linux compatibility (firmware in Legacy mode) with following LiveCDs (amd64 KDE desktop)
1. openSUSE 13.1 (Touchscreen NOK, LAN OK, WiFi OK, Display OK, BT OK, fdisk -l does not list the Windows partition correctly as displayed in Disk Managament in Windows 8.1)
2. Debian Wheezy (Touchscreen NOK, LAN OK, WiFi NOK, Display OK, BT OK, fdisk -l does not list the Windows partition correctly as displayed in Disk Managament in Windows 8.1)
3. Ubuntu 13.10 (Touchscreen NOK, LAN OK, Display OK, WiFi OK, BT OK, fdisk -l does not list the Windows partition correctly as displayed in Disk Managament in Windows 8.1)
4. Fedora 20 (Touchscreen OK, LAN OK, Display OK, WiFi OK, BT OK, fdisk -l **does** list the Windows partition correctly as displayed in Disk Managament in Windows 8.1)
All of the above were much faster than the factory installed Windows 8.1. Linux font rendering also looks better :)
Fedora 20 comes out a winner with *all* functionality working, including hot keys like display brightness, mousepad, WiFi on/off but ... Debian being my distro of choice I realize there is some tweaking involved.
My take on the U310 - with some tweaking (drivers+firmware), it is possible to get your favorite distro working on it.
PS - Lenovo forums has a special Linux Discussions group for specific questions; the forum is quite active.
HTH, -- Arun Khan
I recently bought a Lenovo ultrabook U310 touchscreen (with Windows 8.1) 24GB Sandisk SSD, 500GB WD HDD. 4GB RAM, i5 3rd gen, Intel graphics.
Before I blow away Windows, I have tried out Linux compatibility (firmware in Legacy mode) with following LiveCDs (amd64 KDE desktop)
- openSUSE 13.1 (Touchscreen NOK, LAN OK, WiFi OK, Display OK, BT OK,
fdisk -l does not list the Windows partition correctly as displayed in Disk Managament in Windows 8.1)
- Debian Wheezy (Touchscreen NOK, LAN OK, WiFi NOK, Display OK, BT OK,
fdisk -l does not list the Windows partition correctly as displayed in Disk Managament in Windows 8.1)
- Ubuntu 13.10 (Touchscreen NOK, LAN OK, Display OK, WiFi OK, BT OK, fdisk
-l does not list the Windows partition correctly as displayed in Disk Managament in Windows 8.1)
- Fedora 20 (Touchscreen OK, LAN OK, Display OK, WiFi OK, BT OK, fdisk -l
**does** list the Windows partition correctly as displayed in Disk Managament in Windows 8.1)
All of the above were much faster than the factory installed Windows 8.1. Linux font rendering also looks better :)
Fedora 20 comes out a winner with *all* functionality working, including hot keys like display brightness, mousepad, WiFi on/off but ... Debian being my distro of choice I realize there is some tweaking involved.
My take on the U310 - with some tweaking (drivers+firmware), it is possible to get your favorite distro working on it.
PS - Lenovo forums has a special Linux Discussions group for specific questions; the forum is quite active.
Hi Arun,
Great evaluation !
Have you tried Plasma Active (by KDE) ?
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Arun,
Great evaluation !
Have you tried Plasma Active (by KDE) ?
For x86 there is Kubuntu based 32 bit version.
Anyways, I downloaded it. Saw the standard Kubuntu boot logo and after that nothing else :( Pressing the power button displays sleep / poweroff and unlock screen. Drag to unlock area gives a blank screen.
No gooda.
Trying out LMDE and Mint 16 KDE respin.
-- Arun
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
I recently bought a Lenovo ultrabook U310 touchscreen
I guess you can't twist or fold it to make it tablet like.
Does it has pen/stylus to do handwriting task?
How much it costs?
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