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Another laptop debianized 🍾

I recently bought and #debianized a second hand 11" laptop for my daughter, since she found unconformable bringing the 14" one on her backpack.

This Asus 11" is fairly old, but has a peculiarity that makes it very interesting, it has a touch screen and therefore it is very suitable for her online assignments.

Luckily, through #Debian and #XFCE4, I was able to set up a snap and lean environment, and the laptop goes pretty smooth. The great flexibility of XFCE helped me to build a pseudo-UI that is very suitable for a touch-screen use: the result is convincing and the its use is very intuitive.

I have became very fond about 11" laptop, are very handy — I have actually one that I bring constantly with me — and it is total shame this slice of the market has been totally replaced by (useless) Chromebooks… 😟

The Asus I bought for my daughter still has a vga and an ethernet port, mine does not,these are features that I really missed a lot and you'll never find on Chromebooks. Also Chromebooks are really designed to let very difficult to install any other OS, worst than the usually tricks M$ invents every year.

Now if you want an 11" that is still a computer you have to look on the second-hand market. 🤷‍♂️