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.
Probably a Surface (if there’s one with a 5G modem) at the moment. I got a Lenovo Ideapad Duo Chromebook a few years ago but it’s become unusable now and hasn’t been jailbroken to my knowledge. There was a newer version but it wasn’t made available in the UK. Devices like the Juno look promising but are way too expensive for me (accepting they’re around the same price as an iPad and that Android devices are subsidised).
I really wonder when there will be Linux for the Google Pixel Tablet. Its very secure, GrapheneOS is already there. But Android is a shitty tablet OS, Firefox is not optimized at all, leave alone
- keepassxc
- aegis
- newpipe, grayjay
- lemmy
- antennapod
- F-droid basic
- aurorastore
- collabora office
- file managers
- image editors, galleries
- Element, K9mail, Signal, Telegram
- weather apps
- Jerboa, Fedilab, PixelDroid
- Torbrowser Android
Many other apps work greatly though.
Its simply a bad experience compared to an ipad, while KDE or GNOME are probably great.
Outside of the 3 listed so far, the only other Linux tablet I know of is Purism’s Librem 11 they have in stock
I know this isn’t a direct answer but … if other restraints are that important (portability, water residence, I assume a bright screen, etc) it might be a viable compromise to get a good ARM (Linux) tablet & then use remote (via VPN) to a desktop PC (or like a VM) for super fast (but potentially laggy) x86.
