![]() If I decrease the brightness a bit, it looks even better: I ran “sudo powertop –auto-tune,” and then I ran “sudo powertop” to see the power consumption without further interacting with the computer: I selected “Power Saver” as the power profile in the Gnome menu, and I have installed “powertop”. Typically, I have to use Gnome Tweaks, but in this case, using the “Accessibility” menu and selecting “Large Text” was enough for having a readable screen (this corresponds to a font scaling factor of 1.25): Usually, I have to increase the font size on my computers. Grub detected my existing Windows installation so that I could boot Windows from the grub menu. Wayland works and touchpad gestures work as well. So here we are on the installed system as usual, I’m greeted by the initial setup dialog: I prefer to manually partition the disk because I want a swap partition (for hibernation), a standard EXT4 partition mounted on a directory that I will share with other Linux installations, and the root partition as BTRFS. The overall installation process went smoothly and fast. Moreover, the “Balanced” profile is automatically selected, meaning power profiles also work. I’d say that WiFi and Bluetooth are also working from the new GNOME 43 menu in the top-right corner (in fact, I can connect to my WiFi). I decided first to try Ubuntu and see whether everything works in the live environment: OK, let’s reboot with the USB stick (I’m using Ventoy) and press F12 to get to the boot menu to choose to boot from the USB: I opened “Disk Management”, selected the primary partition, and used the context menu “Shrink Volume…” since I’m not planning to use Windows much, 137Gb should be enough for the Windows partition after shrink:īefore installing Linux, I also disabled “fast startup” in Windows: this will allow me later to access the Windows partition from Linux (otherwise, the Windows partition would be in an inconsistent state): After installing a few programs on Windows (and performing the system updates), that’s the amount of used space: ![]() I do that by shrinking the Windows partition from Windows itself. Then, it’s time to prepare some room in the SSD for Linux. Then, you can disable the Supervisor Password (you have to use the password you had previously chosen). This will allow you to change the entry of “Secure Boot”: The idea is to (at least temporarily) set a supervisor password (take note of that password!): The official documentation describes the procedure to make those entries changeable. If you go to the BIOS “boot” tab, you see that you cannot change the boot entries. Make sure the “F12 Boot Menu” is enabled (by default, it’s disabled): To enter the BIOS, you must press F2 while the laptop is booting (when you see the “Acer” logo). This is also useful later because I typically have several Linux distributions installed on the same computer. I need the F12 boot menu to boot from the USB stick. I have already downloaded the Ubuntu ISO and copied it into a USB stick with Ventoy. In this article, I’ll report my experience installing Ubuntu (Ubuntu 22.10 “Kinetic Kudu”) on this Acer Aspire Vero.Īlthough nowadays I’m mainly an Arch Linux user, when installing Linux on a brand new laptop, I typically prefer to start with Ubuntu. Of course, I immediately installed Linux on this machine.
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