An Asus UX51Vz - no legacy boot option at all, pure EFI/GPT sadly.

Sexy hunk of a laptop other than certain inclination toward windoze-only...

-mb


On 12/16/2013 02:06 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:48:56AM -0700, Michael Butash wrote:
>> I'm curious to see if it's as broken as ubuntu seems to be these
>> days - feedback from adopters here appreciated.
>>
>> I spent 3 days last week trying to get ubuntu working with 13.10 on
>> a fresh install, and since they're forcing use of a desktop cd, and
>> not producing alt installs now, found the install process to be
>> entirely broken.  A new laptop with only EFI boot apparently leaves
>> me few options for distributions, namely excluding debian which I
>> was going to attempt to migrate to avoid ubuntu's steady decline in
>> quality/stability.  Hopefully Valve heads this off using the
>> Ubuntu/Debian base.
>>
>> I spent the weekend attempting to abandon Ubuntu and learning Arch
>> (or trying to) after the ubuntu fail, which wasn't exactly easy, and
>> simply finding just about every step requires some extensive
>> research of packages, lack of automagical setup, and sadly most any
>> ease found in Ubuntu I've apparently taken for granted.  Not to
>> mention I'm not finding pacman packages for most things I need/want
>> (doubt Steam is going to be supported on Arch anytime soon).
>>
>> Maybe Valve injecting their two bits around Debian too will help
>> that, but I doubt it'll support more enterprise-y features like
>> raid, encryption, and lvm as part of the install features I need.
>> Then again, I wish Ubuntu would just put it back said features or
>> produce an alt cd again including them natively until someone fixes
>> their broken desktop installer.
> Pardon the stupid question but why couldn't you disable uefi/secure boot
> in your bios? What laptop is it?
>
>
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