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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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Recommendations for mobile Linux desktop environments that run well on an x86 tablet? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml

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I have an unused Windows tablet from 2021 running some Core M processor or other that I want to put Linux on and start using again. It doesn't have a keyboard so I would have to actually use it as a tablet and not a laptop. Is there a distro built around one of the mobile desktop environments that also runs well on x86? (Last time I tried Linux mobile it was pretty much only for ARM and I never got it to work well on even an x86 virtual machine.) Or is regular GNOME deskrop still my best bet for a tablet?

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[–] tomasoqvist@social.librem.one 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@HiddenLayer555 I am running Manjaro with Gnome on my x86 Starlite tablet. I think it works quite well.

[–] silmathoron@floss.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@tomasoqvist indeed basic Gnome works quite well on tablets (tested Nobara Gnome on an old windows surface) @HiddenLayer555