The UX305 is an ultrabook that can run Linux (google for discussion).
So I bought a couple when the Canadian Microsoft Store had a great
Boxing Day sale.
(Boxing Day in Canada and the rest of the Commonwealth is a sale day
like the US Black Friday. It is the day after Christmas.)
It turns out that the UX305C (or UX305CA -- both names are used to
describe this notebook) has a newer processor (Skylake) than the other
writeups have covered. This newer processor and support chip cause
some problems.
I was able to install Fedora 23 on it, but there were several issues.
All serious problems went away when I installed the Rawhide kernel
after installing Fedora 23.
While installing, the trackpad won't work. So you should use an
external mouse for the installation procedure.
I found that my USB / ethernet dongle would not work during
installation. Wireless did work.
After installation and applying all updates, I followed this to
install the Rawhide kernel:
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RawhideKernelNodebug>
You need to turn off Secure Boot to boot the Rawhide kernel.
Here are relevant bugzilla entries:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281990>
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292615>
Even after this fix, the airplane mode light (in the keycap) is on but
I'm not in airplane mode. I haven't tried other Fn-* key
combinations: I assume that they are not working. I haven't tried to
fix them.
Others have gotten Arch Linux, debian, and Ubuntu working on the
UX305C. All due to the work described in bz 1281990.
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