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Linux tablet 5g support and small enough to lend itself to everyday portability

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Something ive been wanting for a while is a highly portable linux device like a phone or small tablet but obviously running fully flegde linux.

I need a device that is x86, 5g/4g networking water resistant if possible, sliding kB would be great but thats a bye gone era.

I don’t want to use android based systems as when they have linux support it is via a spersific distribution made for that device. Virtualization is also not for me.

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emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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Are there any mainstream tablets running RISC processors though? I though RISC processors of that power level were still in the development stage and/or only available in China.

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WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
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ARM is a RISC processor at heart. Or at least it was at one point - I’m not sure how or if they’ve deviated. Time for some wikipedia.

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DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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they’re still pretty RISC, using fixed-width instructions and fairly simple encoding. certainly a hell of a lot simpler than the mess that is x86-64

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