&gt; UEFI boot support means systems that lack BIOS compat will work now.<p>&gt; ASUS X205TA is an example of a machine with reduced hardware ACPI. Also has Broadcom wifi. I don’t know of a particularly good choice in the netbook category.<p>The ASUS X205TA is a machine that is hostile to anything not Windows.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have bios. It has 64 bit architecture, but a 32 bit EFI. That makes it harder ot install for example some Linuxes.<p>Here&#x27;s a 51 page thread in the Ubuntu forums: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntuforums.org&#x2F;showthread.php?t=2254322&amp;page=51" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntuforums.org&#x2F;showthread.php?t=2254322&amp;page=51</a><p>Here&#x27;s someone trying to write a driver for sound: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;comments.gmane.org&#x2F;gmane.linux.alsa.devel&#x2F;138822" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;comments.gmane.org&#x2F;gmane.linux.alsa.devel&#x2F;138822</a><p>Here&#x27;s the guide to getting debian on it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;InstallingDebianOn&#x2F;Asus&#x2F;X205TA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;InstallingDebianOn&#x2F;Asus&#x2F;X205TA</a><p>Here&#x27;s the (as usual, excellent) guide to getting Arch on it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Asus_x205ta" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Asus_x205ta</a><p>I guess people using BSD are happy with installs that are more complex than &quot;burn an image to a USB stick; boot from that USB stick; click a button&quot;.  But here&#x27;s an example of someone installing Arch: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ifranali.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;installing-arch-linux-on-asus-x205ta.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ifranali.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;installing-arch-linux...</a><p>It&#x27;s a shame it&#x27;s so hostile because, considering the price, it&#x27;s a nice enough machine. (The screen is lousy, and the sound is odd. If you liked the EEE PC 701, well, this isn&#x27;t as good.)