Not him, but I use a Yoga 1 as my main laptop (CS undergrad) and I run ubuntu 13.10 on it. Getting wifi working takes a bit of work, and I don't have full functionality (though you can get it working with some scripts, I just don't care) in terms of screen rotation, but the laptop is pretty great.

Pluses: The touchscreen works and support multitouch its a very solid laptop Wifi and bluetooth drivers are available Installation was pretty painless, it took me some research to get around the shenanigans that are UEFI, but there are guides on the web

Minuses: automatic screen rotation is apparently impossible making wifi work is a struggle and it occasionally needs to have the drivers recompiled after updates, I simply have the file in my main directory and do so as needed There's almost no linux stuff that makes use of multitouch, so the point is moot