{"id":2727,"date":"2018-09-21T13:38:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2018-09-21T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:36:47","slug":"new-linux-mint-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"New Linux Mint convert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Christmas I bought a new ASUS TP200SA<\/a> netbook(?) for my wife. It was familiar as I have the ASUS C100PA<\/a> Chromebook, and I love it. This ASUS however came with Windows 10. She wanted it as a windows box as she was sure she needed windows to do some of the work she wanted to do. A false premise, I know, but one that a lot of people have.<\/p>\n

And it worked Ok, at first, however Microsoft should never get into specing hardware, in this case, in an effort to produce a Chromebook ‘killer’ that used a similar specification. duo-core, 2GB ram and 32GB of storage. And while this works for a lightweight OS like ChromeOS, this is nowhere near adequate for windows 10. And the issue raised it’s ugly head with the first ‘Update’ that Microsoft forced down on the users who own these.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t work, would never have worked, so MS has produced another dud of a product. Don’t buy one of these for Windows 10, you will hate it.<\/p>\n

The good news is that I did my research beforehand on this laptop, and there were several people managing to get Linux to boot on them. Mosly having to delete the entire windows 10 partition. So knowing I had a solution I bought this. And when the wife finally got too frustrated with making Windows work, she ask me to convert it.<\/p>\n

The previous Linux geeks were using things like Fedora<\/a> but I wasn’t enamored of that distribution. So I tried out my favorite Linux Mint<\/a> 18.2 and performed the steps I found here: TP200SA Linux Success!<\/a> except where they used Fedora I used a live USB stick for Linux Mint 18.2. This work great, and I showed my wife how to use the install after she tried out the live USB.<\/p>\n

Everything when great, and the install worked even the touch screen, a good surprise. However on the first reboot to the internal ‘ssd’ in the TP200 the track pad did not work, the touch interface work and I assumed that there was a setting that needed to be changed. Not! But after googling the Elan touchpad, I found this: Elantech Touchpad not working<\/a><\/p>\n

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had the same problem. After googling a lot I found a workaround: in \/etc\/defaut\/grub<\/p>\n

sudo nano \/etc\/default\/grub
I added i8042.reset to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT<\/p>\n

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”i8042.reset quiet splash”
and then<\/p>\n

sudo update-grub
Finally after a restart the touchpad works fine (multitouch included).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then after I rebooted, it all worked. It does not auto switch to ‘Pad’ mode, but the wife never used that feature anyway, she is delighted to have dumped Windows, and with the addition of the Chromium Browser it synced up with her other Sony Laptop, and she’s using the touch screen all the time. Win!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Even zdnet.com<\/a> is telling you to drop Windows. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Last Christmas I bought a new ASUS TP200SA netbook(?) for my wife. It was familiar as I have the ASUS C100PA Chromebook, and I love it. This ASUS however came with Windows 10. She wanted it as a windows box…<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more New Linux Mint convert<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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