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<\/a><\/p>\nThe one thing about it that I was never really happy with was the 15.6-inch display, because the display size determines the overall system size (and indirectly the weight), and I prefer to carry smaller\/lighter laptops in my backpack. In addition, the larger display consumes more power, thus shortening Asus a32-k52 laptop battery<\/a><\/strong> life. Despite that, though, I have been using that laptop quite a lot, and I’ve been very pleased with it.<\/p>\n Depending on your use, the smaller amount of memory could be a disadvantage — but honestly, if you are doing something that needs 8GB of memory, this is probably not the right notebook to be using anyway.<\/p>\n As with all of my laptops (and desktops), the primary use of the notebook will be with Linux — but I will at least make an attempt to keep Windows on it. Rather than make this a long drawn-out description of the installation process, I am just going to hit the high points:<\/p>\n Windows 10 Home<\/strong><\/p>\n What can I say? It came pre-loaded, so I walked it through the setup and configuration process. It would be more accurate to say that I dragged<\/em> it through the process, or I allowed it to crawl<\/em> through the process.<\/p>\n It took an hour or so to answer the questions (no<\/em>, I don’t want to send my personal data to Microsoft, no<\/em>, I don’t want to send my browsing history to Microsoft, no<\/em>, I don’t want to connect to unknown WiFi networks just because someone I know connected to them once, or because Microsoft thinks they are nice) and then let it complete the setup and install the first batch of “critical patches”.<\/p>\n Then it immediately wanted to “Upgrade to Windows 10” (don’t ask me what this means for a freshly installed Windows 10 system), so I let it do that. It downloaded 4GB of data, and then spent another hour and a half installing that. Once that was done it seemed to be quiet for a while – but the next day it once again said that it needed to install “critical updates”, and it downloaded another<\/em> 4GB and spent another<\/em> two hours installing it. Now it seems to be happy about updates, at least for the moment. But every time I boot Windows, the performance monitor shows the disk access constantly running at a minimum of 40 percent.<\/p>\n openSUSE Tumbleweed (KDE)<\/strong><\/p>\n As always with my Linux installations, this was the first to be installed and it will control all of the multi-boot operation from now on. Installation took about 20 minutes, and I had absolutely no problems with it. All of the hardware was recognized and properly configured, including the nasty ASUS “clickpad” pointing device.<\/p>\n Manjaro 17.0.1 (KDE)<\/strong><\/p>\n Installation took less than 15 minutes, and everything works.<\/p>\n Debian GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n Because we are getting close to the release of Debian 9.0, I decided to use the Stretch RC3 installer. This probably saved me some trouble, because when I installed Debian 8 (jessie) on the ASUS X540S it didn’t handle either the display or the clickpad properly, but the Stretch installer had absolutely no problems at all. I chose the Cinnamon desktop for this installation – I think this is the first time I have used Debian Cinnamon, and it really is nice. Significantly nicer looking and easier to use than the standard Debian Gnome 3 desktop.<\/p>\n Fedora (Gnome 3)<\/strong><\/p>\n Again, since we are getting pretty close to the Fedora 26 release, I decided to install 26 Alpha. Again, no problems and everything works.<\/p>\n Solus (MATE)<\/strong><\/p>\n Because I already have Solus with the Budgie desktop installed on the other ASUS, I decided to try the MATE desktop on this one. No problems with the installation, and the desktop looks very good. They have done a good job of integrating MATE with the Solus design philosophy.<\/p>\n Ubuntu 17.04 (Unity)<\/strong><\/p>\n No problems. Just think, this might be the last time that I load a system with Unity!<\/p>\n openSUSE Leap 42.3 Alpha (KDE)<\/strong><\/p>\n Again, because I’m loading the newest versions, and in hopes of avoiding problems, I went for the 42.3 Alpha instead of the stable 42.2 release. The installer didn’t like the clickpad, so I had to use a USB mouse for the installation process, but the installed systems works with everything just fine.<\/p>\n The bottom line here is that I installed and configured seven<\/em> Linux distributions in a lot less time than it took to setup Windows 10 – without even including the hours that Windows spent on “upgrades” after the setup was complete. More importantly, every one of those Linux installations boots faster and is more pleasant to use than Windows 10 on this notebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few months ago I bought an ASUS x540sa notebook, and I’m happy as an inexpensive system. 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\n <\/td>\n R414SA<\/td>\n X540SA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n CPU<\/td>\n Celeron N3160
\nQuad Core<\/td>\nCeleron N3060
\nDual Core<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n RAM<\/td>\n 4GB DDR3<\/td>\n 8GB DDR3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Disk<\/td>\n 500GB HDD<\/td>\n 500GB HDD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Display<\/td>\n 14″ 1366×768
\nIntel HD Graphics<\/td>\n15.6″ 1366×768
\nIntel HD Graphics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n Network<\/td>\n Wired Gbit
\nWiFi b\/g\/n
\nBluetooth 4.0<\/td>\nWired Gbit
\nWiFi b\/g\/n
\nBluetooth 4.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n USB<\/td>\n 1×2.0 \/ 1×3.0
\n1×3.1 USB-C<\/td>\n1×2.0 \/ 1×3.0
\n1×3.1 USB-C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n Video<\/td>\n HDMI & VGA<\/td>\n HDMI & VGA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Memory Card<\/td>\n SD\/SDHC\/SDXC<\/td>\n SD\/SDHC\/SDXC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Optical Drive<\/td>\n 8x Super-Multi DVD<\/td>\n 8x Super-Multi DVD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Weight<\/td>\n 1.6Kg<\/td>\n 2.0Kg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n