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I am thinking about buying the ASUS ZenBook 14. It features a fancy kind of trackpad, which has extra virtual buttons integrated into it.

I am thinking about installing the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on it.
Do you know if Ubuntu supports this hardware?
How can I find out about this?

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  • Does this answer your question? Will my device work with Ubuntu? – Pilot6 Nov 15 '21 at 17:38
  • @Pilot6 It's possibly a duplicate question, but this question has valuable unique answers so I voted to leave it open anyway. – karel Jun 19 '22 at 02:04
  • @karel I agree that there are some useful answers. But IMHO AU is not a place to ask this type of questions. I am using this kind of laptops too and I asked this question before :) I took some part in discovering how to enable this feature in a bug report. – Pilot6 Jun 19 '22 at 07:54

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Integrated numpad to touchpad is, unfortunately, still not working on Ubuntu 20.04 by default. (reported issue)

But I'm a developer and I've written a linux driver that enables most of the features. Download and configure for your device and it should work perfectly.

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Edit: Unfortunately, as a fellow user suggested, you will need an additional driver for the numpad on the touchpad to work.

I believe their trackpad is just a fancy way of enabling NumLock, so if it doesn't need any extra driver, (is plug-n-play), the trackpad shouldn't be a problem.

However, you may need to install Nvidia drivers.

If you want to make sure it is compatible you should delve into reviews and technical documentation. I would personally check if it's plug n play or if it requires extra software, as soon as it requires extra software, it will be incompatible with other OS.

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