Despite Limitations, It is Coolĭespite all the limitations and difficulties you may encounter, you have to admit it’s pretty cool. While I still believe it’s doable, it require a lot of work and if you don’t know what you’re doing it will be a real headache for you. Apple locks their devices down pretty tightly and limits your access to do things like flash the drive.
If you are an iPad user, then you can pretty much forget about trying this.
There are some hacks out there that will help give you limited mobile app support, but in my experience it is buggy and sometimes darn near impossible to get to work right. If you do go down the Linux route, you could be cutting yourself off from mobile app stores such as Google’s Play Store. Sure, they do exist on Linux, and many of the popular graphical systems for Linux such as Unity and Gnome 3 do a great job supporting touch, but many of the apps themselves just won’t work very well because they haven’t been designed for use with your fingers. One of the biggest problems out there are apps that are optimized for touchscreens. In other cases, you can get the hardware to work, but it will take a lot of effort on your part.
In some cases, it installs fine but there are no drivers for your hardware. One quick Google search will turn up a lot of different mixed results when using Linux on a tablet. If this happens, you’re pretty much out of luck. That means your particular tablet model may not have a Linux distribution out there that supports it. With so many different tablet processors and architecture, it’s tough for Linux to support them all. What You Need to KnowĪs I said, there are a few things you need to know before you try to install Linux on your tablet. But, have you stopped to consider Linux? That’s right, it is possible to install Linux on a tablet, but there are a few caveats that you must know before you consider going down this path. Well, Windows could be an option, but if you are going to buy Windows and run it on your tablet, you may as well pick up a Surface or some other Windows-based tablet instead of spending time reformatting your existing Android tablet.
In some cases, you may want to do more with your tablet that iOS or Android will allow. I talk a lot here about Android and how customizable it is, but at the end of the day it is still a mobile operating system.
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