On 03/12/2018 23.58, TimW wrote:
> This is a HP envy x2. It's a windows 8 tablet with a keyboard that is
> detachable. Quite a nice bit of hardware in many ways but even with
> windows 8 reset to factory and updated to windows 8.1 it is painfully
> slow and windows 8 does still suck even with a touch screen. The specs are:
> https://www8.hp.com/uk/en/ad/envy-x2/specs.ht...
> and https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c035968...
>
> So I thought another OS might be good but I have totally failed to get
> it to boot off a DVD or a usb stick and google tells me many others have
> failed before me, in fact nobody has ever made this thing run linux
> afaict. I have tried to boot from both 64 and 32 bit isos being somewhat
> confused as to why a modern tablet would be running a 32 bit windows.
>
> So am I wasting my time trying to get linux onto it? Is there something
> clever I can do like make a virtual disk on the c drive, or install from
> the sd card? or some kind of wubi type arrangement?. I guess I am still
> going to have driver problems. I don't want to put it back on ebay but I
> could. Is there a similar table that would run linux? I wanted to have a
> tablet for when I am speaking/teaching from notes. Like people do with
> ipads.

I have a "Lenovo Yoga 30011IBR"

<https://gadgets.ndtv.com/lenovo-yoga-300-11ib...

It can be considered a tablet with keyboard, or a small laptop. An
hybrid. It comes with a rotating rust disk which I replaced with a
bigger SSD, so I have both Windows and Linux. Linux uses the touch
screen as if it is a mouse, so it doesn't really behave as a tablet (at
least on XFCE). Maybe there is some other Linux desktop (software) that
behaves as a tablet.


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Cheers, Carlos.

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