Subj : Re: About to give up with a windows tablet To : TimW From : Carlos E.R. Date : Wed Dec 05 2018 14:44:43 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.html > and https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c03596892 > > 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" 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. -- Cheers, Carlos. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: SpaceSST BBS Usenet Fidonet Gateway (255:255/999) .