The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Best lightweight Linux for Touchscreen?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by HTWingNut, Sep 19, 2013.

  1. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

    Reputations:
    21,580
    Messages:
    35,370
    Likes Received:
    9,877
    Trophy Points:
    931
    I have an Acer V5-122p netbook/notebook whatever you want to call it. It's an 11.6" touchscreen Win 8 machine with an AMD A6-1450 with 6GB DDR3 (support for only 1066MHz and single channel :mad:). I wouldn't mind using it with Linux instead, but would like to take advantage of the touchscreen. Is there any good but lightweight Linux distro for something like this?
     
    HTWingNut, Sep 19, 2013
    #1
  2. UNCNDL1

    UNCNDL1 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    225
    Messages:
    795
    Likes Received:
    183
    Trophy Points:
    56
    I use Linux Mint 15 MATE on my Panasonic toughbook CF-19 and touch works very nicely.
    You might start with Linux Mint 13 MATE LTS as it is supported until 2017.
    Download from here: Main Page - Linux Mint
    Best regards, Cleve
     
    UNCNDL1, Sep 20, 2013
    #2
    HTWingNut likes this.
  3. tommytomatoe

    tommytomatoe Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    59
    Messages:
    579
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    31
    You can't go wrong with Arch Linux. Lightweight, highly customizable, easy package management, and the best community wiki out there. You have documentation for days.

    Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2
     
    tommytomatoe, Sep 20, 2013
    #3
  4. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

    Reputations:
    21,580
    Messages:
    35,370
    Likes Received:
    9,877
    Trophy Points:
    931
    @tommytomatoe
    But is it optimized for touch?

    Sent from my G2
     
    HTWingNut, Sep 20, 2013
    #4
  5. tommytomatoe

    tommytomatoe Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    59
    Messages:
    579
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    31
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchscreen

    Lots of information there to get you started. Its not as plug and play as other distros however you have a lot of control and can fine tune it how you want.

    I havent had the chance to play with touchscreen under linux yet. Please let me know how it goes for you!

    Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2
     
    tommytomatoe, Sep 21, 2013
    #5