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ASUS VIVOBOOK S15 S510U

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The ASUS Vivobook S15 is a beauty combined with a beast in terms of performance. It comes with a slim NanoEdge bezel, brushed-metal finish, the latest Intel® Core™ processor, 8-16 GB RAM, and NVIDIA® GeForce® MX150 graphics.     My unit has the following configuration : Processor : 8th Gen Intel Core i5  RAM : 8 GB Graphics : 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce MX150 HDD : 1 TB OS : WINDOWS 10  and got it for around ₹ 58,000 (around 900$).

Installing Linux on ASUS Vivobook S15 - Debian 9-Stretch

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After using the Windows 10 that came with the laptop for a few days I decided to dual boot the system with a Linux distribution. Since most of my college works are done on Debian, I decided to install the latest version of Debian itself. At the time I was looking to download, the latest version available was Debian 9.3.0. I downloaded the amd-64 version from the official website : https://www.debian.org/ . I will describe all the steps I did for the installation. You can follow this guide under your own risk. But if you take the precautions as I mention you might not face any issues. 1. Download the Debian ISO image from the website. The Debian installation DVD is uploaded in different parts. So the Debian version DVD-1.iso will be the file you should be downloading for installation. The rest Debian version DVD-2.iso and Debian version DVD-3.iso will be containing extra packages which are not necessary for a regular install. 2. Once you get the ISO image next step is to