# Anybody tried installing latest Linux releases? **URL:** \ **Category:** Hi10 X\ **Created:** [May 11, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/anybody-tried-installing-latest-linux-releases/10209 "2020-05-11T15:50:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spyderz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@spyderz](https://forum.chuwi.com/u/spyderz)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/anybody-tried-installing-latest-linux-releases/10209/1 "2020-05-11T15:50:53Z")
anybody tried successfully install latest Linux distros (Manjaro, Ubuntu, Kubuntu etc)? does the touchscreen and rotation work out of the box? ---
**Author:** ![spikerguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.chuwi.com/spikerguy/32/1971_2.png) [@spikerguy](https://forum.chuwi.com/u/spikerguy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/anybody-tried-installing-latest-linux-releases/10209/2 "2020-05-11T16:06:27Z")
Touch should work but not sure how well it will work. Rotate might not work depending on whe desktop environment used. Its hard to verify as I don’t see much of official support from chuwi. Hope they send device to some developers to get good support in linux. Thanks for asking about linux as we need more users to request chuwi foe linux supported devices. ---
**Author:** ![spyderz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@spyderz](https://forum.chuwi.com/u/spyderz)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/anybody-tried-installing-latest-linux-releases/10209/3 "2020-05-12T05:29:00Z")
i installed ubuntu 20.04.everything works out of the box (for eg front and back camera) except for the screen rotation. ---
**Author:** ![JediBrooker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@JediBrooker](https://forum.chuwi.com/u/JediBrooker)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/anybody-tried-installing-latest-linux-releases/10209/4 "2020-05-16T10:06:12Z")
yeah, if someone could figure out how to get auto-rotation working in linux and android that would be great. unfortunately i’m too stupid when it comes to that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![wilhelmshen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@wilhelmshen](https://forum.chuwi.com/u/wilhelmshen)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/anybody-tried-installing-latest-linux-releases/10209/5 "2020-05-22T08:10:25Z")
I’ve been using Linux for more than 20 years, and the only reason I’m using Windows 10 on Hi10X is WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Such a sad story. ---
**Author:** ![Sirius-c](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.chuwi.com/sirius-c/32/3139_2.png) [@Sirius-c](https://forum.chuwi.com/u/Sirius-c)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/anybody-tried-installing-latest-linux-releases/10209/6 "2020-07-28T00:26:26Z")
I installed Linux Mint 20, touch screen works great but screen rotation does not… you can rotate the screen in the display settings (clockwise) but when you do the touch points stay with the previous rotation so everything is off and unusable (IE: the touch screen still thinks that it is operating in portrait mode), that said, if you plug in a mouse everything is fine. I also suggest scaling up to 150% to make the icons bigger, this setting can also be found in the display settings ---
**Author:** ![paul.lim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@paul.lim](https://forum.chuwi.com/u/paul.lim)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/anybody-tried-installing-latest-linux-releases/10209/7 "2020-08-16T20:12:14Z")
Also installed Ubuntu and Kbuntu 20.04 here no issues apart from touch / rotate… The touch works initially but the screen is set to portrait as that is the default. If you force rotate it in settings it is not smart enough to also rotate the touch… I managed to get touch working in landscape with the method described in link below but it is a bit hacky and haven’t spent the time to automate it yet… > ---
**Author:** ![Sirius-c](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.chuwi.com/sirius-c/32/3139_2.png) [@Sirius-c](https://forum.chuwi.com/u/Sirius-c)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/anybody-tried-installing-latest-linux-releases/10209/8 "2020-10-08T17:56:08Z")
> [@LINUX: Successful Screen rotation & correct touch points via scripts](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/linux-successful-screen-rotation-correct-touch-points-via-scripts/15385): > > Anyone who has installed Linux on their Hi10X will know that auto screen rotation does not work and when you manually rotate the display to landscape you will find that the touch points are not reflective of this new rotation. I have successfully created two scripts that you can create desktop or panel shortcuts to that will simply rotate the display either to portrait mode or landscape mode instantly, but more importantly the touch points will reflect the rotation you have switched to. It wor…