Distro-hopping on the ASUS zenbook

If you're familiar with Linux distributions, you've probably heard of Arch Linux. Now I won't explain what Arch Linux is but in short, Arch Linux is a fairly minimal distro where the user has the freedom to customise it to their liking. This can lead to a very lightweight system which may improve performance and battery life, both points being very relevant to the UX305CA. For installation, I just followed the Arch Linux beginners guide . While more experienced users may feel that this is the wrong guide to follow, it does the job and I haven't had any issues with it. Precaution: Follow at your own risk. Never run copy-paste commands into a terminal blindly without knowing exactly what it is doing. Just because someone knows what they are doing, doesn't mean you don't have to know! Now if you are following my guide simply for UX305CA-specific tweaks, here are some I have: Bootloader If you've already installed Arch linux, you can skip over this ...

Fedora 27 on the ASUS Zenbook UX305CA For people who don't know about Fedora Fedora is a independent distribution that uses its own repositories and package management and is maintained by Red Hat. It is one of the most used Linux distributions available and uses the GNOME desktop environment by default. It also is well known for having a short release cycle and for having bleeding edge software while also having QA before it is released. For people who have used Fedora and are on an older build Fedora 27 introduces GNOME 3.26 which has a redesigned settings menu, improved display switching, and many other improvements over previous iterations. Firefox has been updated to the 57 build codenamed, Quantum, and many other software package updates. I would say it is a stable release, but people on servers may want to wait out so that all bugs have been ironed out. After being on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for less than a week, I had noticed a few quirks from day-to-day usage. One o...