Day 2 review of Acer CB3-131 with Linux courtesy of GalliumOS.

The good:

Utterly flawless driver support, absolutely everything worked out-of-the-box. No futzing around with modprobe or extra downloads required. Installation took some careful reading, but the instructions were accurate.

Since it's a modern Baytrail x86 CPU with 4GB RAM, it's pretty damn fast for non-gaming purposes. And since it's plain x86 Xubuntu 16.04 LTS under the hood, installing anything is just an apt-get away, no weird out-of-date custom repos in sight.

Hardware video acceleration seems to work fine. VLC barely sips CPU time while playing 1080p video.

802.11ac wifi makes wireless rsyncs damn fast.

Quick boot time.

Great power management support. Suspend/resume works every time.

The bad:

Only 16GB storage built-in. Luckily the SD card slot is designed in a way that SD cards are fully embedded in the body when inserted. But the cost of a high capacity SD card is an extra expense to be aware of.

No full coreboot ROM is possible on this model at this time.

The ugly:

The keyboard layout takes some getting used to. The touchpad doesn't have right-click functionality, so opening context menus can be interesting. External mice work as expected.

The TN screen is reasonably detailed (1366x768 on 12" is acceptable) and I love that it's matte. Colours aren't nearly as accurate as IPS. But it also doesn't do that weird colour-shift at large viewing angles. All in all, it's TN, but it's probably one of the better TN panels I've used.

Overall:

Very happy. Proper full-scale Linux with perfect drivers on a cheap, reasonably powerful, reasonably compact and lightweight machine.

So... anyone wanna buy an Asus T100TA with Windows 10 preinstalled? It's going for cheap!