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Searching for a Linux tablet, I got a used Lenovo X1 Tablet Gen3. Linux works mostly fine, but as a tablet, it's mostly useless for reasons similar to the ones
by deng 2y ago
Searching for a Linux tablet, I got a used Lenovo X1 Tablet Gen3. Linux works mostly fine, but as a tablet, it's mostly useless for reasons similar to the ones mentioned in TFA:
* Battery life. 5-6 hours for moderate use simply does not cut it, especially since sleep drains battery like crazy because s0ix is not working properly, and debugging why is almost impossible. It's absolutely crazy how something that used to work just fine was deliberately botched because MS/Intel decided everything has to be a phone.
* So because of this, you need to shut down the tablet if not used, which wouldn't be too bad, but as TFA says, you need a keyboard to enter the LUKS decryption password.
* As a pure reading device, it's too heavy.
Apart from that, Firefox is basically unusable because backspace does not work properly because of this bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1832876 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1832876
So in the end, while it's working, there's still a lot of janky behavior, which makes the experience just frustrating.