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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 1 week 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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[–] pak0st@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@dingdongitsabear @HiddenLayer555 take a look at pmOS osk-sdl for LUKS unlock: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Osk-sdl

Heck- just try @postmarketOS on the thing 😄

[–] usia@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@pak0st @dingdongitsabear @HiddenLayer555 @postmarketOS I think osk-sdl is deprecated. I woul'd go with unl0kr. But I woul'd also choose #postmarketos and probably #sxmo if I wan't to have more of a productiv desktop setup or gnome-mobile for a phone/tablet setup.

[–] pak0st@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 week ago

@usia @dingdongitsabear @HiddenLayer555 @postmarketOS I completely missed the deprecation notice. Thanks!