Hi Linux nerds,
I’ve started up classes recently, and with being a recent convert and all, was a little curious to hear if anyone had any recommendations for a tablet capable of handling the workload of a student and that runs linux. I’m a bit of a neophyte when it comes to hardware (especially tablets, I’ve never had one in my life), though I’ve got enough experience to run Fedora on my PC.
My needs are pretty simple, I just need to be able to run libreoffice and take notes on the machine during lectures. Any insights as to where I should be looking?
Xiaomi Mi Pad 6
I’m not sure how easy it would be to put desktop Linux on it. postmarketOS may get support for it but it looks like it may require a bit of work to put the OS on it. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Pad_6_(xiaomi-pipa)
Putting linux on it is surprisingly easy. The difficult part is unlocking the bootloader… That took me 2 weeks. But yeah, now I have arch+hyprland on slot B and android 16 on slot A in a dual boot setup, and it’s smooth as hell. 17 hours of screen on time with libreoffice/gnome pdf reader.
wow nice! Surprisingly long battery life.