You can also run ‘sudo powertop’ to see what is draining your power. Just run the following commands: sudo apt-get install powertop tlp tlp-rdw tp-smapi-* acpi-call-dkms This, I believe is mostly due to the default kernel settings, and is easy to fix. Out of the box, Ubuntu 15.10 was using up the battery quicker than Windows 10. I haven’t tested Fn-F7, which is presentation mode, as it needs an external display or projector attached. The following keys did not work out of the box, and I honestly haven’t tried to get them working: In addition, the following special keys, just work: The stylus, touchscreen and touchpad all worked. What WorksĪfter the installation, I found that a lot of things work out of the box. Even resizing the windows partition worked fine (it’s recommended that you defrag and run a file check on Windows before doing this). This worked more or less out of the box, all I had to do was go into the BIOS and disable Secure Boot, and then just follow the onscreen instructions during the install. I started by cloning the whole drive to another machine, just in case, and installed Ubuntu alongside Windows. InstallationĪ while after Ubuntu 15.10 came out, I found the time to install it on my new laptop. It also gave me an opportunity to see how the hardware was meant to function. Instead of being adventurous and upgrading the kernel, or trying another bleeding edge distro, I decided to wait it out, and just use Windows 10 on it for a while. I got the laptop about a month before Ubuntu 15.10 came out, and quickly found out that it required a newer kernel than the one found in 14.04 and 15.04. You simply have better control over the pressure with it, especially when using light pressure, plus it has a double side switch. Still, neither pen is quite as good as the Cintiq 13HD one. It feels like I’m getting more accurate pressure support with the Bamboo stylus than the original, it seems to register strokes with a lighter touch. The stylus that comes with it was a bit on the skinny side, so I bought a Wacom Bamboo Feel Carbon pen, which works great. It ticked most of the boxes, being powerful and light, and with Wacom support. What I wound up with was the ThinkPad Yoga 12 (2nd gen), with core i7 and 8G of RAM. The Cintiq Companion 2, looks like a great machine for drawing, but I needed a machine that was 50% for drawing, and 50% for typing…plus I couldn’t find much info about running Linux on it so was a bit skeptical if I would run into problems I couldn’t solve, and would be stuck with Windows.On the plus side, it has no fans, so can run completely silently, but would require me to lug along the Cintiq. It’s less powerful, but also less expensive, than the Dell. Dell XPS 13 with my Cintiq 13HD, a great machine with official Linux support, but not very portable when combined with a Cintiq.I considered many options, including the: I wanted a laptop that was powerful and light weight, a typical ultra book, but made for drawing. With a touchscreen, stylus, screens that can flip around, accelerometers that detect screen orientation and more to deal with, in addition to WiFi cards and trackpads, things can quickly become problematic. Linux has gotten a lot better at supporting all kinds of new hardware, but with a new TabletPC you’re really pushing it. Picking a laptop for doing art and comics on Linux is a tricky proposition, especially if you want a convertible one with stylus support. Then again, getting 9 years out of a laptop is pretty good, so I can’t really fault HP. Ignore the rest of this article, unless you’re trying to install an old distro on your lapotop.Ī few months ago I got myself a new laptop, after my 9 year old trusty HP TC4400 was slowly falling apart, with display problems and getting overly hot when doing anything beyond typing working in the terminal. Go to my github page for instructions on how to get palm rejection working. Most of the features that the spin.py tool provided now work out of the box with Ubuntu 18.04, except palm rejection. IMPORTANT NOTE! This post is now very much out of date. Configuring ThinkPad Yoga 12 with Ubuntu 15.10
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