Just a quick update on how Fedora 28 is doing on the Asus Zenbook.

Nary a day goes by without a significant stack of new packages coming down the pipe, and the Fedora project people have been doing good work. Nothing broke, lots of small things have been fixed, and everything just works.

For me the biggest improvement is due to the outstanding work the kernel contributors have been doing on 4.16. After some initial niggles with the overzealous USB powersaving features, the situation has stabilized. Their effort definitely bears fruit for us laptop users. We have seen battery runtimes going up to the tune of 30-50% in those light-use scenarios of web browsing, text editing, and emailing. So, those times where CPU and IO aren't taxed at all.

For most of us who aren't developers or video editors, that is a significant percentage of the day. On the Asus, with my typical usage pattern, and with Wifi and bluetooth on all the time, I'm now seeing 11 to 12 hours of battery runtime. That is just phenomenal. Or maybe I'm just easily pleased.

Anyway, if you want to give it a try head on over to https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/, download the image, pop it onto a USB thumb drive, and give it a whirl. No need to install just to try it out.