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I am tempted by an hybrid netbook/tablet. The first I came across was the Acer T100TA but apprently the linux support is poor (cf. this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=179948 ). I see a similar product made by ACER, the Acer SW5-011: http://tinyurl.com/qha2qva. Does anyone has an idea of the linux support of it? I would be able to handle the 32 bit EFI, but what worried me is the hardware support. Is it well supported? I mean really well, with the intention to use archlinux as a primary OS, so I want to have WIFI, 2D/3D accelerated graphic, etc.
Last edited by olive (2014-11-02 17:24:38)
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I was thinking about getting such device myself as Gnome 3.14 finally supports gestures.
After consideration my conclusion was to stay away from Bay-Trail-T devices until Intel would figure out their bugs, I had my share of freezes and hangs with Intel's mobile graphics, very frustrating when this preventing from you to cencentrate on your work.
From what I seeing at freedesktop Bay-Tail-T (BYT) is not devoid of bugs and it seems there are (or were) issues not related to the GPU alone (like eMMC, boot).
I'm putting aside the basic hardware support which seems to me less important as:
* These devices mostly configured the same way in regards to wifi (usually rtl8724bs), sound, graphics, usb ...
* Regarding touch it should be easy to google and find if the device's touchscreen works in Linux.
* Buttons should be pretty to support, so even if they aren't working today you should expect someone to add support for them.
Anyway, currently it looks like the best source of information is the Fedlet page and its Github repo, if you review the latest comments you'll find users mentioning hangs.
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