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The ASUS is tiny for travel. The X2xx is larger, still pretty mobile, and built like a tank (military spec moisture and dust resistance).
As a side-note, the ASUS died on me during my India trip due to moisture.
I recently bought the Xiaomi Mi Air 12. tl;dr, it's the best ultrabook/notebook I've ever had and run Arch on it. I was looking for a light notebook also for programming for a long, long time (and I wanted this time Linux because of tiling window managers like i3). I finally got this Chinese model and what can I say, inside it's all Intel (Wifi, BT), Arch works flawlessly, touchpad is a glass trackpad and is for a no…
I presume you can get every component into powersaving states (which you can monitor with powertop).
Tricky question, do you get battery discharge events via ACPI (run acpid, and unplug)? That's the gold standard for uber good Linux support, and allows for neat udev rules to be written.
What material are keycaps made of?
I recommend the Asus Flip Chromebook (running Debian under Crouton for development) or a refurbished Lenovo X2xx series. The ASUS is tiny for travel. The X2xx is larger, still pretty mobile, and built like a tank (military spec moisture and dust resistance). As a side-note, the ASUS died on me during my India trip due to moisture.
The X205ta is not robust and not recommended if you want to run Linux, unless you enjoy painful noodling to get anything working.
It's a nice machine for what it is (A windows 10 machine for Youtube video and social media).
Only downside is the TN screen. In the US it's probably even cheaper.
I'd recommend Lenovo laptops. I have a Thinkpad T460s, which is awesome. If you really want the tablet/laptop hybrid, maybe a Thinkpad X1 Yoga, or something from the 'regular' Yoga series will work for you. Yoga-series laptops start at around $500, whereas the premium X1 Yoga starts at something like $1.400 I believe. Edit: Linux support on Lenovo laptops is pretty good overall, and if you're a Windows person, they s…
Seconded. I have a T440S which go for around 300 used. Decently thin and light with 100pct linux support and one of the last "real" lenovo typing friendly keyboards. Note the Yogas, Carbon, etc. all have chicklet keys now.
And the terrible buttonless trackpad
I was considering Asus Zenbook 3. Very light, very powerful. Reasonably priced. 12.5" It's basically a MacBook but stronger and with decent file and window managers and pc keyboard.
My choice: Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1. Perfect Linux support, great battery, well built solid chassis, thin. Negatives: Costs a fortune, and some people simply don't like Thinkpads.
Xiaomi Notebook Air 12.5 is a good ultrabook, it has a good build quality and Linux support https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9xqJK2Hlb3U
It is very hard to get hold of one in west for anything close to the original price.
With this disclaimer: Please pay attention: both versions of Mi Notebook Air will be run on Windows 10 Home Chinese Edition
Check out the Acer C720 running Gallium OS (Xubuntu). They're available with i3s and 4gb of ram and they're quite sufficient and have a great community.