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I recently got a new laptop to run Ubuntu on. Initially I bought a Lenovo Yoga 900 - the hardware was great, but I ran into the bios shenanigans which blew up
by flavor8 10y ago
I recently got a new laptop to run Ubuntu on.
Initially I bought a Lenovo Yoga 900 - the hardware was great, but I ran into the bios shenanigans which blew up on HN and Reddit a week or so after I'd returned it. (They have since fixed it.)
I then bought a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 which is nice. Touch screen, convertible, reasonable resolution, affordable. Ubuntu installed easily (although I had to jump through minor hoops around UEFI) and everything has worked flawlessly.
- desireco42 10y agoSorry for ignorant question, but is touch screen works on Ubuntu? I've been eyeing jumping to linux, whether on a mac or some other laptop...
- desireco42 10y agoTo answer my own question, it seems to just work on recent ubuntu releases, which is great.
- flavor8 10y agoYeah, the touch screen works great (with multi touch in apps that support it, e.g. chrome). The only thing that's not supported is auto inversion of the screen when you fold it over 360 degrees to use it as a tablet. I set up a shortcut key combination to do that, so it's not overly cumbersome.