Supported laptop with touchscreen? [closed]
I'd like to know whether there exists hardware that satisfies these requirements:
- Working well with a recent Ubuntu (I'd like 13.10 to work well)
- having a touchscreen
It looks like we are in an unfortunate situation where no such thing exists yet... did I miss something?
Solution 1:
I just purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch and replaced the installed Windows 8 with Ubuntu 13.04. Everything worked out of the box, including the touchscreen. 13.04 isn't really touch-optimized -- you have to hit the scroll bar to scroll a window with touch, for instance -- but that's not the hardware's fault, it recognizes the touch event just fine.
I haven't tried the 13.10 betas on it so I can't say for certain how well they will work on the hardware, but given how solid 13.04 is on the Carbon Touch I'm optimistic that 13.10 will work well too.
Solution 2:
The System76 Darter comes with Ubuntu touch. I've bought a laptop (a Gazelle) from them in the past and it's worked well as long as I remember to reinstall their drivers ppa when I reinstall. (Using it right now.) https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/daru4
Solution 3:
I have Asus X202e also with Windows 8 preinstalled.
In both Ubuntu 12.10 & 13.04 multitouch screen is working out of box. But there are a small set of gestures: only 1-touch(act as click) and 3-finger move (move and resize app window). AFIK currently gesture recognizers apps such as ginn are not working since 12.04 due unity core modification
Solution 4:
Touchscreen works fine and out of the box on Toshiba U-505 under Ubuntu 13.04. Uses N-trig with DuoSense so any compatible pen will work fine...