Thanks for your feedback. I would be using Fedora, so a pretty up-to-date distro. I don't mind a bit tinkering, but don't consider sys-admin stuff a hobby :). S

Thanks for your feedback. I would be using Fedora, so a pretty up-to-date distro. I don't mind a bit tinkering, but don't consider sys-admin stuff a hobby :). So I am very keen on reports, how far the support for this hardware is, as it would be bad, if I end up not really being able to use Linux after buying the machine for this purpose. But your report is encouraging, especially that the fans are not too noisy and the battery runtime is as expected - no laptop runs long when on full steam. But for casual use, the time you are getting sounds good - more than enough. I don't need the ultimate runtimes on battery, as long as it is quite a bit longer than the 2 hours Ars Technica got. So you have me definitely tempted :)