[lug] Linux laptops

Quentin Hartman qhartman at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 09:40:58 MST 2014


They've been out for awhile, but this is the first time I've encountered
someone who actually owns one.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wish somebody had mentioned these back in Oct. when I asked about Linux
> Laptops. I bought 4 Lenovo's (posted what I bought in the orginal thread)
> but not these. I also bought 8 samsung android tablets for the touch
> screens, and 4 bluetooth keyboards so that it would be easier to type data.
> If I had known about the Yoga's I would have simply bought those. Are these
> laptops that have just come out?
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Vishal Verma <stellarhopper at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I can vouch for the Yoga 2 pro, I installed Fedora21 on it, and
>> everything (afaict) worked out of the box.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Chuck Hipschman <ckhipschman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Does the Yoga 2 you have have a touchscreen?  Do you/can you use it
>> with Linux?
>>
>> Yes, it has a touch screen and it works in Linux (at least in F21).
>> How usable it is is up for a toss - I don't really like touch screens
>> on computers anyway, they should stay with phones and tablets :)
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