advice on Asus VivoBook S400CA-UH51 ubuntu install

[Liam Proven]

On 11 June 2013 12:53, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are thinking of buying the Asus VivoBook S400CA-UH51.  Touch screen,
> light weight, good price.  Perusing the net it looks like a bit of a hassle
> to install a second operating system.  I've not found any comprehensive
> instructions and was wondering if any of you have any comments or
> suggestions.

In my (fairly varied) experience, touchscreen support on Linux is a
lottery. Chance are good that it won't work. Either it'll work out of
the box, or you'll have hours of pain, or it never will. Avoid LTSs -
run the latest version.

Apart from that, it'll probably be fine, though.


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