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

[Eva B]

Hi Doug:

I meant putting on Ubuntu and Curv?

Eva

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 13:06 Eva B <eva at diyode.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>> If your needs aren't super compute-intensive, Canada Computers has an
>> iSmart (chinese macbook air type clone) on sale for $269.  It has an N3450
>> Celeron processor, a 6-8 hour battery life, fingerprint scanner, 32GB SSD
>> (+ M2 slot for expansion) and 1080P screen 4GB RAM.  I bought one for my
>> daughter to play a game she really like after she accidentally broke my
>> macbook.  It seems well built and performs fine for surfing/office
>> tasks/light gaming.  I have the UX305CA myself (but running Windows) it's a
>> great laptop.
>>
>> *Mark Steffen*
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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
>>>> >
>>>> > --
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>>>> > Here are the tools.
>>>> > Go
>>>> >
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