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"

<https://gadgets.ndtv.com/lenovo-yoga-300-11ibr-5295>

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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