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linuxxx
7y

Spent nearly a day to get this tiny laptop-tablet to work.

I got myself a second hand Asus T100TAF but Linux compatibility was far to be found. Online resources said I'd be very lucky if I'd even get the touchscreen or the WiFi to work.

I've been installing distro's all day and I finally have a working version!

Lubuntu with Budgie as desktop environment. Touchscreen works out of the box and some random person on the Linux mint forum linked to a github thing. Lost all hope already but this made the fucking WiFi work.

Can dock and undock it and it works great.

Thanks to all open source devs for this!

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  • 4
    7y
    @Condor, @JoshBent
  • 5
    7y
    Lubuntu <3
  • 3
    7y
    @linuxxx great that it took a good ending afterall 😊 have never tried budgie myself, but always seemed to be quite fancy.
  • 2
    7y
    @linuxxx that is awesome. Looking forward to future updates.
  • 1
    7y
    I assumed linux ran on pretty much everything....
  • 1
    7y
    @Condor I’m actually kinda curious to learn more about drivers and how OSses work more under-the-hood. Do you or @linuxxx have any links you’d recommend?

    I don’t think I want to write drivers for a living but I think I’d find a use in knowing how they work having a hackintosh and all...
  • 1
    7y
    @A-C-E to add to @Condor 's comment it is the same for every OS. That is one reason why I don't like proprietary drivers. If a company doesn't produce the driver for your OS you are basically left stranded until someone with enough motivation creates the driver.

    Edit: think @A-C-E understands leaving comment here for informational purposes
  • 2
    7y
    @A-C-E take a look at this talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/...

    Here is the github repo: https://github.com/emmericp/ixy
  • 0
    7y
    Hi, I have the same laptop and I'd love to put it on linux as well!
    I tried once but wasn't successful :(
    Could you tell me which online resources you used?
  • 0
    7y
    @linuxxx what was this github-thing that solved the problem? Do you have a link? Just curious because I did a sound driver/codec thing for low end cherry trail laptops
  • 3
    7y
    Nice good job. Budgie is awesome!
  • 0
    7y
    @linuxxx you actually got it working? I sold my T100T because I couldn't get it to boot anything other than Windows 8!
  • 0
    7y
    @monr0e I've got a fully functioning Lubuntu Asus T100TAF!
  • 0
    7y
    @monr0e All I had to do was change the USB mode in the bios/uefi and place a specially compiled efi 32 bits thingy in the efi/boot dir on the live USB!
  • 0
    7y
    I tried to use linux but my vm sucks i dont know how to just use :(
  • 0
    7y
    @linuxxx hmf. I couldn't switch the bios to legacy mode at all.
  • 0
    7y
    @monr0e There isn't an option for that indeed. I just turned off secure boot mode :)
  • 1
    7y
    Wish I had known this before throwing my t100 out the window (pun very much intended).
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