On 18/11/15 18:20, Bob Williams wrote:
I'm thinking of getting an ASUS ZenBook UX305 for my wife. It comes with Windows 10 preloaded, but we would prefer to put openSUSE on it instead. Has anyone tried this? Successful? Any gotchas to look out for?
I read a review http://opensource.com/life/15/8/beautiful-super-thin-laptop-makes-fedora-shi... which sounds very optimistic, but he couldn't boot the machine from a USB stick with installation media, even when Secure Boot was disabled.
It was actually much easier than I had expected. Windows 10 hides the relevant settings (security by obscurity), but searching for 'partition' got me to the partitioning tool where I was able to shrink the Windows partition. Similarly, searching on 'uefi' got me to a wizard where I chose the option to access a USB stick. I plugged in my openSUSE 13.2 stick, and clicked the icon, whereupon the machine rebooted into the openSUSE installer, which recognised the efi option. Installation was smooth and fast. I now have a dual boot machine, on which I'll keep Windows until the warranty expires, when I'll reclaim the 50GB it occupies. Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.16.7-29-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.9 Uptime: 06:00am up 20:09, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.12, 0.07