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.
Hi Arun,
Great evaluation !
Have you tried Plasma Active (by KDE) ?
http://plasma-active.org/
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Siji Sunny