Acer Switch Alpha 12 tablet running Linux Mint 18

[panteliskatsoudas]

Please upload another video with desktop scaling and WiFi drivers if possible.

[Rodoxk]

Moral of the story: As long as your tablet isn't ARM-supported, you can run Linux Mint on it all day.

[NebRadojkovic]

Did you try to upgrade the Kernel to 4.15.0-15-generic x86_64? That might make your WiFi work. Cheers!

[Sashik]

does it able to turn off keyboard light?

[jhuaman]

Any chance you can show us how to run Remix OS on this? I've tried and somehow cannot boot properly.

[abhinavgupta]

I bought it from Costco Us, but then I travelled to india and this laptop started developing issues. The rear camera has stopped working and the keyboard automatically disconnects. I have to disconnect and reconnect keyboard. It connects sometimes and doesn't connect sometimes.

Do you also face this issue ??

[edsonadrega]

with Linux Mint 18 touch screen its still working, but can i use Libre Office or send E-mails without the keyboard??

[MarkBraggs]

Web browsing speed and responsiveness seems pretty horrible. Is it a slow network connection?

[CrustyAbsconder]

Mr. Liliputing,

Thank you. Very interesting video. You have just proven to the world with factual evidence that Linux Mint 18 is better than Windows 98, Windows Me and Mac OS 7.6, and all versions of Linux prior to Kernel 2.6. Right ? So I guess my question is: have you proven that Mint 18 is better than Windows XP, and Mac OS 8, and other versions/distros of Linux with the 3.1 kernel. Is Mint 18 substantially better than Mint 17.3, enough that new Linux users should choose 18 over 17.3, and should people like me using 17.3 install 18 over it or wait for the upgrade-method ? I think what I am trying to say is that a person can state as a fact that Mint 18 is so good that anyone using a computer OS prior to 2010, should reformat their hard-drive and install Mint 18 as the primary operating system, or remove the hard-drive and install a new one and load Mint 18. I guess my next question is would the latest releases of other distros like Deepin 15.2, and Peppermint 7 work just as good on a touchscreen portable computer? I have been using Mint 17.3 for about 175 hours and have not yet got past the newbie stage.

[suichen]

Hello Lliputing,

The Aspire Switch Alpha 12 I got had some problem booting regardless of distro (can happen both on Ubuntu and Mint and Clonezilla): the Kernel sometimes is not detecting the internal SSD as /dev/sda . Booting from an external USB key is always OK, but when this problem happens, the internal SSD will not show up in the Live session and the external USB key will become /dev/sda (instead of /dev/sdb).


I hope this may be useful for those who want to run Linux on the Acer Aspire Switch Alpha 12.

Can I know if you have observed similar problems on your Aspire Switch Alpha 12?
Thanks!

[comradevnn]

i get a black screen the second i click install linux mint on this specific laptop (the switch alpha 12 from acer if it wasnt clear enough), anyone know any way to help?

[seank]

Do any versions of Linux scale the UI?

[pauljs]

You probably need libwacom2. For some reason the main libwacom driver that comes with Mint doesn't have full feature support. Installing the extra driver seems to fill in and patch what is broken otherwise. Thus you'll get access to driver settings, pressure sensitivity, stylus rocker and eraser that the basic driver fails on.

Other than that, setting scaling for desktop fonts and icon display may help with the itty bitty stuff at high res.

Of course doing this on other hardware so YMMV.

[daves.projects]

can you install mint? or did windows block it with a 32bit uefi bootloader so you cant install anything but windows shit.

[JigaByte]

XD scale it. Go to screen settings and set your scale to 200%. In windows it's scaled tho :p

[roflrolf]

Mine isn't booting anymore XD
I already asked for help on a forum, let's see if somebody can help me.