Elementary OS with ASUS zenbook

So I recently bought a Asus Zenbook UX305LA FC004T. It's in the same price range of a macbook air but with higher specs. Lookwise it looks like a macbook air copy and comes with a Windows 10 pre-installed.

But for people like who need a linux distro, elementary OS is the upcoming OS who is taking the world by a storm. You will defintely like its UI and its a good combination with Asus Zenbook.

My reviews with the combinations
1. Battery life is about 8hrs with full charge and moderate use, should be more for windows
2. Speakers are very low volume there are few hacks suggested for this.
3. Screen is good and its pretty lighweight and sturdy, my friend sat on it accidentally , still all is good.

Compared with macbook air which comes in the same price range I don't know how this device would fare, but given the extra 128 gb and extra 4gigs ram this seems the better choice.


Few things that I did to install Elementary OS

After dual booting my PC with Freya, I did the following

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Run a sudo apt-get update before and enable the canonical partners repository.

Following tools are a must

• Synapse, a semantic serach engine it makes life beautiful when using linux 
• Elementary Tweaks
• Glipper, saves the content of your copyboard
• KeePassX, saves the mundane password and the touble of filling them

Becoming better with vim

These are the things that I learn while on my vim journey

Here is good list of articles that you should read, to start with this is an excellent cheat sheet for vim

A Introductory cheatsheet, do this before going to another

http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html

Then these articles are helpful

Moolenar : Good Vim Habits

ctags, is a very good tool for navigating through big projects.

Here is another very good blog about learning vim
http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/

definitely do the above before moving on.

Next steps after learning these shortcuts is having a good .vimrc file, which is basically a configuration file for your vim( stored in the HOME directory). You can search for popular .vimrc on the net. I'll list a few that I find good

Plugins , now as suggested by a friend I started using vundle , which is a vim plugin manager.

• NERDTree is a must to have when working on code base. 
• Cscope is also a needed when working with large code base, refer to the link for setting up Cscope with vim. Also, do the following for automatic cscope.out detection http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Autoloading_Cscope_Database 
• Along with NERDTree , you need to learn how to use split screens in vim which is very usefull when working with multiple files. https://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~kuperman/help/vim/windows.html