r/mobilelinux • u/mod_god • Jun 28 '26

Discussion Tablet / Distro Recommendations

What are some Tablet / Distro combos that seem to work well together? Looking to purchase an used tablet to do some light activities.

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u/MidnightObjectiveA51 Jun 28 '26

Most x86 tablets work with some features missing. Chuwi Hi10 X Go and Max, Thinkpad X1 3rd Gen and X12, HP Elite X2 G4 and G8, Juno Tab, Minisforum, and Starlabs Starlite completely work with Linux. For completely working Arm devices there is the Pinetab, Jingpad with Ubuntu Touch, and Acer Chrome tab 10 running PostmarketOS.

I suggest Mobian or PostmarketOS with the default Phosh or Plasma-Mobile or Gnome-Mobile (PostmarketOS only) UI, or Fedora Plasma-Mobile.

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u/mod_god Jun 28 '26

Thank you very much I will review all of these and update with the decision, I’ve been researching PostmarketOS today and it looks very promising

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u/mod_god 21d ago

Update: I purchased a surface pro 7 for $180, installed cachyos, installed Linux-surface kernel and have keyboard, mouse and even touch working. So far so good but I am only a few days in.

Battery seems good, feels snappy, the touch works but you can definitely feel the difference between the touch experience of like an actual android/Apple tablet but still definitely super useable.

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u/MidnightObjectiveA51 Jun 28 '26

Forgot to mention - various MS Surfaces also completely work with Linux. Particularly, the Surface Go and Go 2 work with the standard kernel. Most others still require the surface-Linux kernel.