On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:56 AM, jdd wrote:
There is on board a 24Gb ssd that is used automatically by windows.
I can't comment on the SSD questions.
* it's a touch screen computer. Is there a touch screen friendly kde setup? Touch is seen, but icons are very small. Have I to use Gnome 3?
Nope to either option. I've got an Acer tablet/laptop hybrid with a touch screen and I've found Gnome3 and KDE4 are about equal for being touch (un)friendly with KDE being MUCH more configurable towards being touch friendly. Both work... but with Gnome's chronic lack of configuration, you're pretty much stuck with what you get. Even the 3rd party Gnome themes don't fix much. With KDE4, you can use a regular mouse and configure/scale up the desktop widgets to make them fat-finger sized. This works reasonably OK. The biggest issue isn't really KDE or Gnome... it's the apps you launch. There are no standard desktop apps that are touch friendly. All of them (desktop apps like browsers, office suites etc) rely on the mouse paradigm with cascading menus etc that we've all used for decades. So even if you find Gnome or KDE (or Mate, Cinnamon, XFCE, etc etc) touch friendly, once you launch an app... you're back in the world of mouse. Other big issues with touch in Linux vs Windows... - scrolling in browsers doesn't work (you have to scroll using the scroll bar vs just swiping in the browser) - right-click is hit and miss... long touch on the screen on a browser link will work as a right click, but elsewhere it rarely works - double-click on things is next to impossible - tap and drag is a hit/miss... like resizing a window, it's insanely frustrating and involves a lot of tap, drag.. crap missed, tap, drag, crap missed until you either accidentally grab the window border... or you give up and connect the mouse.
* I have no wired ethernet interface. I beg I can use an usb one, but is is really effective? wifi works, but I frequently had problems with wufi in the past
I have no issues at all with my Acer and WiFi... it really is a case of "just works" on install. I have no issues with reconnecitng on wakeup/hibernation etc. Assuming you've got a compatible WiFi chipset (like Atheros) in your Asus laptop... I'd expect it to work similarly. C. -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.12 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org