I’m travelling & there were netbooks on sale: the Samsung ATIV 9 had good specs and I’ve installed linux on almost everything. Well, I have just given up in defeat and am taking a big old clunky laptop.

• The most modern distros — ubuntu, opensuse and fedora all ended up after installing correctly with an unbootable brick. (F4: no bootable system)
• Debian did boot. Debian did work — apart from not recognising the wifi
• Arch worked. Seriously. But the radeon driver freezes intermittently and I loast 48h trying to fix it. The Arch based distros freeze.

I should have spent more money and got someone at Zabuntu to do it for me. But that costs about a thousand dollars more: I now know why these netbooks are so cheap. If you look on the forums you find that the windows boys are having exactly the same problems with getting Win 7 on the machines.

Will have another go when I do not have time pressure.

In the meantime, I hate UEFI, and I particularly hate the way Samsung have done it.