Compatibility with Asus Zenbook UX501 series in Ubuntu

Question

I was looking for a powerful Notebook and found the Asus Zenbook UX501JW-FI177H. I've done some research about problems with Ubuntu, but could not find anything for this model. Does anyone have experience with Ubuntu on this model?

Solution

Touchscreen & WebCam is not working as good as in MS Windows, otherwise it's quite good. Even, I am writing this response from my zenbook pro-ux501JW :)

Comments

[guntbert]

The validity of answers to questions about hardware compatibility is usually very short, and as such this is not a good question for this site.

[Timothée Jeannin]

I installed Ubuntu on my UX501JW. Airplane mode and Fn+F5/Fn+F6 keys to control brightness were not working. I solved the issue with this question and this bug ( GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=" ). I installed the drivers with this question. The Wifi doesn't work after suspending, everything else is working properly. :)

[L1nuxUs3r]

Great, thanks man (: the version I'm gonna buy doesn't have a touchscreen, but still, good to know that I don't have to worry about it too much. What about the power management? And battery life? Is it like really bad or good?

[Puspendu Banerjee]

@L1nuxUs3r Could you please re-write the description in your question otherwise it is sounding more like a shopping or hardware recommendation and coming under clauses mentioned at askubuntu.com/help/on-topic

[Yuseferi]

which version of Ubuntu have you tested?