I've been looking into a replacement for my Acer Aspire One (from Sep 2008) since it is dying a slow and painful death (overheating on occasion, battery is dying, wear & tear, etc). Today I happened upon the newly released Asus Transformer T100 and I saw that it had an Intel Atom processor...which is x86.

I have been using linux exclusively on my own computers for nearly two years and I would really like to keep it that way. One of my barriers to just getting a lightweight tablet and being done with it has been the fact that its difficult to put linux on them...and I don't know if I can live without it (*sniff sniff*).

I know this is a really really new computer (released today), but does anyone happen to know if I would be able to boot linux onto this? It comes with windows 8.1 installed (not RT, so that's another signal to me that it might not be locked) and it would be completely totally awesome to have linux on something like this.

It comes with an USB 3.0 interface, so I think it would just be matter of plugging some bootable drive and that's it.

The T100 is one of the very few devices that need a 32 bit UEFI bootloader and doesn't have a legacy BIOS option.
More information: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTQ5NzE (make sure to also read the forum thread related to that article).

Incredible how they do their best to cut users freedom. However, isn't it possible to set Windows 8 loader to boot from the USB, or at least boot from a partition that has a Linux distribution on it?

This is what I found, maybe it can help you in this situation: http://superuser.com/questions/49961...8-boot-manager