ASUS Begins Offering Linux-Based Endless OS On Select Laptops

[Flaburgan]

I love Asus, after 6 years my UX31E is still working like a charm. It only ever had Ubuntu installed on it. The SSD was dead after 9 months, they changed it freely even if it was running Ubuntu (it was in 2012). So I personally don't need more support than that. The only thing I'm asking is, please don't make me pay for a Windows license. Provide a computer without anything installed, or with a free OS, but don't ask me to send you back the computer so you can remove something I don't want.

[Leopard]

How do you know — did you try contacting them? What was the case, and what they replied?

1-) Yes ,i did. I was told they recommend Windows 10 Pro instead of it.

2-) You can check the page.

https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ASUS-FX553VD/HelpDesk/

Look at the top right.

[cygn]

There are some things Endless OS seems to get right and can prove a better option than a traditional distro for a less-savy endusers; like all-flatpak and turn-key offline apps. Their desktop shell seems also a good fit for my auntie: nicely dumbed-down yet with sufficient functionality and good looking. "Good-looking" is an important marketing argument I'm afraid.

[DanL]

Debian derivatives are a waste of human resources and ubuntu is from dummies to dummies. Modern computers and computing requires a rolling release distribution and Debian testing/sid is the best.

Could you at least have some originality with your preaching and flamebaiting? Or better yet, knock it the fsck off?

[starshipeleven]

You are kidding right? The average computer user doesn't give a damn about having the very latest version of i.e XCalc.

The fact that Debian stable is quite slow on new packages is perfect for a normal user. For the only things that they will ever update such as Firefox or Chrome, they get direct from the vendors website anyway.

Rolling release is for hobbiests, it has no entry in the enterprise or consumer market (for better or for worse).

Yeah, EndlessOS is employing flatpack to ship updated applications over a stable base.

[Hi-Angel]

But here is the thing: ASUS is not providing any support for it , despite they're fully recommending Windows 10 Pro.

How do you know — did you try contacting them? What was the case, and what they replied?

[starshipeleven]

Asus do not waste time with EndlessOS, if you want to be taken seriously as a Linux vendor get in touch with Canonical, certify and preinstall Ubuntu LTS on your fine ultrabooks such as Zenbook and Zenbook Pro lines. I like Asus in general, reliable and usually easy to dissasemble, their laptops tend to be highly compatible with Linux anyway but it would be nice to see Zenbooks preinstalled with Ubuntu LTS.

Lol no. It's great that vendors start looking at distros that aren't Ubuntu. There are many better choices for a turnkey sensible distro

[Leopard]

Michael , that is nothing new.
My laptop ( ASUS FX553VD ) came with EndlessOS too , i bought it one year ago.

But here is the thing: ASUS is not providing any support for it , despite they're fully recommending Windows 10 Pro.

So that means nothing like Dell or Lenovo laptops came with pre installed Ubuntu.

[Hi-Angel]

For once, this single once, i agree with him. The old model of 6 month distribution cycle is obsolete and is only harming Linux on the desktop.

Of course, the ideal distro is Arch or one of its derivatives. Debian is garbage.

As an Arch user, I'm against having it (or derivative) used as a newbie distro. For one, Arch doesn't allow partial upgrades, whilst Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora do. And sometimes there do happen things, like, a need to do force-upgrade to overwrite a path, or a need in re-downloading gpg keys. It's easy to understand and manage when you are not a newbie, but it's not the case with random buyer of laptop.

I'd vote for Fedora. Though I haven't used it myself, but they stick to more-or-less up-to-date packages, they do a bunch of QA, and they have a freaking lot of developers in different software projects.

[kpedersen]

The old model of 6 month distribution cycle is obsolete and is only harming Linux on the desktop.

You are kidding right? The average computer user doesn't give a damn about having the very latest version of i.e XCalc.

The fact that Debian stable is quite slow on new packages is perfect for a normal user. For the only things that they will ever update such as Firefox or Chrome, they get direct from the vendors website anyway.

Rolling release is for hobbiests, it has no entry in the enterprise or consumer market (for better or for worse).