Re:What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem
by bonesinger on Monday November 14, 2011 @09:53PM
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Surprising. The trackpad works well enough but when I do gestures the don't always get recognized, which leads to frustration.
Have you had problems with the space bar? I have to press it harder than normal to get it to register.
EDIT: I've been meaning to install linux on it, now I have a real good reason to try it out. What distro are you using?
Re:What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem
by tikhonj on Monday November 14, 2011 @10:03PM
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I'm using Fedora 15 with KDE, which is running wonderfully. I had to upgrade one package to get KDE to play well, but I think that's fixed in Fedora 16 which is current.
I have not had any issues with the space bar--my only problem has been with the left shift key.
I have to add that the only gestures I've actually used are multiple finger scrolling, pressing with multiple fingers and circular scrolling (which is pretty cool). I don't have zooming--it tends to annoy me more often than not, so I don't know if that works well (or at all) on Linux.
The fans are loud, but only if you use a significant amount of CPU, which I almost never do. If some errant process cough flash cough is taking up too much, I can hear it and deal with it (this alleviates the annoyance a bit).
The trackpad, on the other hand, is brilliant. Using multiple fingers works every time (on Linux, anyhow) and it's actually pleasant to use. I think that all your issues with it would be resolved with Linux; the bloatware is also gone. I've played around with Mac trackpads, and like this one more.