[Peter]

All Linux distros are more or less equal in performance. They only differ in RAM usage, which does not generate much of a significant effect on a 6GB RAM machine other than booting and loading difference. Programm performance itself is not affected by the operation system. There might be some effect by background services, but that is also neglectable. Then some might use a different driver stack, e.g. for touchpad scrolling. Other than than, performance is the same.

[Peter]

DD wrote:

Trackpad is work but no gesture,

I think that requires libinput-gestures. Here is a tutorial.

Playing videos in youtube is smooth, it was very slow in chrome to change the video to full screen mode, now is quicker UPDATE: Intel wifi driver disconnection issue still exist in Ubuntu….

For me performance (including full screen switch) it is pretty much the same in Windows, Cloudready or Solus (that are those I investigated). Only  Cloudready does do the scrolling much better.

DD wrote:

…but trackpad is not working at all…

Trackpad sometimes only works when you boot without power plugged in. That seems to be a common bug with ezbook.

but scolling is SLOW while browsing website…

then there ist something wrong.

Regarding the functionality of the OS, it is severally lacking,

It doesn’t have any – and that’s intended.
You can either use “Subtitle Videoplayer” (Chrome extension) to play MP4 or “Leawo Video Converter” to convert the format.

[Peter]

Furkan wrote:

how can you managed to install chromeOS? are you using neverware? are you using dual boot? i installed neverware some time ago but it had weak performance and issues. How is your performance?

Yes, Cloudready from Neverware, that’s a free ChromeOS variant. You don’t need to tweak anything, just download the image, burn it on USB stick, and boot it – runs fine, everything works out of the box.

Application performance is more or less the same and does not depend much on the OS. ChromeOS just implements the scrolling better (freon window manager) so everything is much smoother and without that lag, uses less RAM, isn’t as wasteful with background services, and also boots much faster (of course the USB stick sets some limitations).
I was using it from USB stick. Unfortunately you cannot install it parallel to Windows. So it does need a dedicated SSD to be installed (didn’t go that route yet).
Main problem I see with ChromeOS is the missing custom multitouch gestures. You can of course configure all that in Linux, but that would need some deeper investigation.

[Peter]

Furkan wrote:

When i was using ubuntu 18.10 i never noticed any strange overload on cpu and the touchpad was working quite fine.

There’s nothing “strange”. Just pixel precise scrolling heavily loads the CPU. Just watch the load (task manager) when you scroll.

That’s why scrolling in Windows/Linux has some lag on slow CPUs. Probably you only recognize the difference when you come from ChromeOS or OSX.

[Peter]

DD wrote:

Does it mean if I disable touchpad , the chance of having CPU loading issue will reduce significantly? It’s hard to imagine how this touch pad can affect so much in this laptop. I will test it later. thanks a lot.

You first have to check what loads your CPU. If you aren’t scrolling then it is something else.
Pixel precise scrolling does not work well yet, neither in Windows nor in Linux. Only ChromeOS has it running.

See this thread: https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/touchpad-improvements-for-ezbook-3-pro/

[Peter]

If you tweak Windows services a bit it runs quite similar efficient as Linux (only that it utilizes much more RAM). Applications also run pretty much similar. But that depends on what you are using.
Most of the CPU load comes from the touchpad implementation. It uses almost all the CPU for polling the touchpad. I have investigated that extensively. If you want smooth and precise scrolling the only solution so far I found is going to ChromeOS. It is much more responsive in this regard than anything else.

[Peter]

I tested several of the major linux distros. Ubuntu, Solus – just run out of the box, everything works, no tweaking neccessarry. However the touchpad is a tad bit imprecise and jittery (e.g. using Chrome). Only slightly better than under Windows. So you don’t gain much compared to Windows. More or less same performance, same battery, similar user experience. Maybe a bit less hassle with the updates. And also better software choices, depending on what you prefer.

You get a better touchpad precision and responsiveness using ChomeOS (“Cloudready”) which you can download from neverware, free version. Seems to be the only Linux distro that has an advanced touchpad implementation. Feels like a different machine. After investigating a bit, it is because Google has dumped the windows manager and replaced it with their own (Freon), which more or less does nothing (so it is faster) an leaves the windowing work for Chrome, which has its own window manager, and efficiently implements smooth pixel precise scrolling.

Cloudready cannot be installed parallel to Windows though. So you would need to buy a SSD for the M.2 Slot and install it there. You can run it from USB just for testing purpose.

So I would recommend Cloudready+SSD. It also does support full blown Linux applications if you wish (but then touchpad scrolling becomes an issue again, didn’t investigate that further).
Solus would be my second choice. But there are only minor differences between all the other distros.

However, none of the distros I tested did activate customizeable multitouch gestures. So you would need to manually configure that (via libinput-gestures), which requires different software stack and elaborated knowledge to get it working properly.

[Peter]

BTW – just updated Chrome to Version 72.0.3626.64 (Offizieller Build) beta (64-Bit), and scrolling is a tad better. They are constantly improving it. This is the first version I would deem usable on a daily basis.

[Peter]

Chupa, appreciated, but I already tested every driver, that was the first I did.
So I am quite sure, that is just the way the Ezbook behaves under Windows. Should be the same for all of us. Bad touchpad implementation with jittery scrolling.
It works flawlessly in ChromeOS (CloudReady) though.
I am assuming that it is because of freon window server.
Didn’t get the smooth and responsive result in other linux distros.
CloudReady has some other limitations though (cannot be installed parallel to Windows, and cannot customize multitouch gestures – to name the 2 most severe).

[Peter]

I installed a free version of ChromeOS on the Ezbook, it is called cloudready, you can download it from www.neverware.com. Install ist straight forward, takes 20min and then runs from an USB stick. Everything works, and you get much faster and smoother scrolling in Chrome. Makes a big difference. Unfortunately it is not possible to install cloudready in parallel to Windows. Bummer.
Anyway, ChromeOS impressively shows how fast and smooth this touchpad can run. It is just Windows bad implementation of the touchpad.

[Peter]

Chupa wrote:

try slimjet from http://www.flashpeak.com/ it is chrome without google

tried slimjet. Seems to be exactly chrome. Regarding scrolling it is no improvement. With the latest updates the Ezbook runs very nicely anyway. Much faster machine.

[Peter]

The load now shows a pretty weird behavior. In the Process tab the processes do not show increased CPU load when scrolling. The scrolling load shows up only in the GPU column. However in the details tab, where there is no GPU column, the load is shown under CPU. This is also shown in the process tab summary.

Prior to the yesterday update, the load was shown in CPU (unfortuately I can’t recall GPU numbers).

Scrolling in edge browser, for example the cnet.com page, in edge adds a marginal 2% additional GPU load to the edge process, but 70% GPU load in the desktop window manager process (no additional CPU load). Doing the same page scrolling in chrome, a 25% GPU load is shown in one of the chrome processes plus a 22% GPU load in the desktop window manager process (also no CPU load here). Overall chrome does generate less GPU load but also scrolling shows a tad bit more lag and jitter.

[Peter]

Chupa wrote:

i don’t know either, haven’t seen your video yet

Video doesn’t show anything. But you can check your CPU/GPU load when scrolling (with task manager).

Good news: Today there was a major Window update. And also an Intel graphics driver update. I don’t know which of both was responsible but the load/scroll issue is much better now. Seemingly the scrolling is now handled by the GPU which didn’t work correctly before. The today’s update has improved the scrolling vastly. Still chrome scrolling is not on par with edge scrolling (which is near Macbook like scrolling).

[Peter]

My Ezbook is running just fine, very responsive and also scrolling is fine. So you cannot see any problem in a video. Only thing is that high CPU load that the touchpad is producing. Ok, I’ll  try to catch that in a video.  I don’t know weather that is just normal or not.

 

[Peter]

I downloaded folder “EZbook 3 Pro v4 drivers doubledriver dump.rar” but couln’d find any touchpad driver in there (see attached pic.

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