Windows Hooves- Ubuntu RoX

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Haseeb ul Hasan <urhhoney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Well, that requires some fiddling with the drivers for touchpad i see and
> some other smaller issues that somtimes becomes a headache.
> I was also wondering whether somebody in the community has already tried
> running ubuntu on chromebook 2 i7/8gig already?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>

Did you try making a bootable USB stick and boot Ubuntu on the ThinkPad? I
bought a Lenovo E540 (says "Thinkpad" all over it) with Core i7 and 5 Gig
of RAM (I upgraded it to the max RAM which may have been a waste) plus I
put in a SSD. Overall it works really well. It did take some adjustments to
get things acceptable, but I never bothered to boot the Windows versions it
came with. So I cannot compare.

In order to get my trackpad working, I just needed to install one package:

gpointing-device-settings

then used THAT tool to adjust the trackpad. Yours may use a different
trackpad, but maybe it will work for you.

I recommend you try a couple of different releases of Ubuntu in case one
isn't so good -- try Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (the current stable LTS) and the
latest release 15.10. Also you might try those same releases of Kubuntu to
see if you're more comfortable with it.

If you stick with Ubuntu on the Thinkpad, you may also want to install TLP
(sadly, not available in the Ubuntu repositories) to get decent battery
life. But be forwarned -- it has no graphical interface.

I haven't tried any of the Chromebooks.
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