Fedora on Asus?

[Jonathan Allen]

Dear Fedora Experts,

My daughter is looking at an Asus Zenbook UX305, which has a 128Gb
SSD but no hard-drive.  It comes with Win 8.1, but is it likely to
work with Linux?  Graphics are Intel HD5300.

Jonathan

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Jonathan Allen <[e-mail]
> wrote:
> Dear Fedora Experts,
>
> My daughter is looking at an Asus Zenbook UX305, which has a 128Gb
> SSD but no hard-drive.  It comes with Win 8.1, but is it likely to
> work with Linux?  Graphics are Intel HD5300.

Well technically the SSD is a hard drive, but yes, not spinning media :)

Intel graphics is generally very well supported. I couldn't find which
chipset the wireless is though in my quick search, if it's Intel as well
you should be fine.

Arch Linux has some good technical info:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ASUS_Zenbook_UX305

It's largely around 3.X kernels so you may or may not run into the same
issues with 4.X.

Richard

[Todor Petkov]

On 30/08/2015 04:44 PM, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Dear Fedora Experts,
>
> My daughter is looking at an Asus Zenbook UX305, which has a 128Gb
> SSD but no hard-drive.  It comes with Win 8.1, but is it likely to
> work with Linux?  Graphics are Intel HD5300.

Hi,

according to some blogs, it works well with Fedora 
(http://www.open-source-feed.com/2015/08/a-powerful-laptop-shining-with-fedor...)

IMO the most problematic thing with new laptops is the WiFi support.

Regards,

[Jonathan Allen]

Richard,
> Intel graphics is generally very well supported. I couldn't find which
> chipset the wireless is though in my quick search, if it's Intel as well
> you should be fine.

Thanks for that.

Jonathan