[kwlug-disc] Thank you to the people with Linux touchscreen suggestions

[Eva B]

Doug, would this work to put Ubuntu on as well as Windows?

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:21 Mark Steffen <rmarksteffen at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 10:39 PM, doug moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
>
>> The zenbook flip looks cool. But my next laptop will run Ubuntu. I've
>> never used a touchscreen laptop. How well does Ubuntu support this
>> hardware? Any experience? Trying to decide if this is a feature I want.
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, 21 April 2018, Andrew Sullivan Cant <
>> acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Eva,
>>>
>>> I recently bought a used Asus Zenbook UX305CA, which is running Linux
>>> pretty well. That one is not what you are looking for(no-touch, no-flip)
>>> but there is a similarly spec'ed Zenbook UX360CA which is both touch and
>>> flip.
>>>
>>> https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ASUS-ZenBook-Flip-UX360CA/
>>>
>>> ebay seems to have a pretty steady supply of them, too.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2018-04-11 1:45 PM, Eva B wrote:
>>> > Hi:
>>> >
>>> > I found  this:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Lenovo-ThinkPad-X200-X201-Tablet-12-1-LCD-Touch-Scree
>>> >
>>> > Does anyone see any potential problems with it?
>>> >
>>> > Eva
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Do you want to make something?
>>> > Here are the tools.
>>> > Go
>>> >
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