> > 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/ -- Siji Sunny -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
