Asus Zephyrus M Ubuntu bootable?












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Currently i have saved up enough money for a new laptop, since im going to use this laptop mainly for programming, pentesting and such i need good power and found this is a laptop that both has power and looks nice, ive been using a Toshiba Satallite for almost 5 years now and have used it with ubuntu, my question is if its possible to change the os from windows to ubuntu 18.04 on the Asus Zephyrus M










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  • I have ASUS GU501 which mainly the same as Zephyrus M GM501. Here are the things that I still can't get working: Trackpad (can't even detect it), NVIDIA.

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Currently i have saved up enough money for a new laptop, since im going to use this laptop mainly for programming, pentesting and such i need good power and found this is a laptop that both has power and looks nice, ive been using a Toshiba Satallite for almost 5 years now and have used it with ubuntu, my question is if its possible to change the os from windows to ubuntu 18.04 on the Asus Zephyrus M










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  • I have ASUS GU501 which mainly the same as Zephyrus M GM501. Here are the things that I still can't get working: Trackpad (can't even detect it), NVIDIA.

    – bakytn
    Jan 3 at 15:32














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Currently i have saved up enough money for a new laptop, since im going to use this laptop mainly for programming, pentesting and such i need good power and found this is a laptop that both has power and looks nice, ive been using a Toshiba Satallite for almost 5 years now and have used it with ubuntu, my question is if its possible to change the os from windows to ubuntu 18.04 on the Asus Zephyrus M










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Currently i have saved up enough money for a new laptop, since im going to use this laptop mainly for programming, pentesting and such i need good power and found this is a laptop that both has power and looks nice, ive been using a Toshiba Satallite for almost 5 years now and have used it with ubuntu, my question is if its possible to change the os from windows to ubuntu 18.04 on the Asus Zephyrus M







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  • I have ASUS GU501 which mainly the same as Zephyrus M GM501. Here are the things that I still can't get working: Trackpad (can't even detect it), NVIDIA.

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    Jan 3 at 15:32



















  • I have ASUS GU501 which mainly the same as Zephyrus M GM501. Here are the things that I still can't get working: Trackpad (can't even detect it), NVIDIA.

    – bakytn
    Jan 3 at 15:32

















I have ASUS GU501 which mainly the same as Zephyrus M GM501. Here are the things that I still can't get working: Trackpad (can't even detect it), NVIDIA.

– bakytn
Jan 3 at 15:32





I have ASUS GU501 which mainly the same as Zephyrus M GM501. Here are the things that I still can't get working: Trackpad (can't even detect it), NVIDIA.

– bakytn
Jan 3 at 15:32










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You don't have to change your OS. You can dual boot Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10. My current configuration is a Zephyrus M that hasn Ubuntu 18.04 running installed with NVIDIA drivers.






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    You don't have to change your OS. You can dual boot Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10. My current configuration is a Zephyrus M that hasn Ubuntu 18.04 running installed with NVIDIA drivers.






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