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How about this for random idea
possibly too random for the random thread!
I have an old Android 11 Teclast_T40_Plus_eea Tablet that stopped getting updates years ago.
I would like to repurpose it as an extended display for my computer.
I want to control the Tablet with my computers keyboard and mouse just like I would with an external monitor.
I have not been able to find anything like Synergy to do so on the google play store in android.
I had the Idea that I could unlock the boot loader and install an ARM64 version of Debian or Ubuntu on it instead as there is a Synergy V1 ARM64.deb file I could use.
So far I have been able to use adb and fastboot commands to access recovery mode but have been unable to get it to boot from OTG USB or SD card with ISO installer for ARM64.
My question is, what I am trying to do a thing, and is it possible to put a mainstream Linux OS on a generic tablet?
What do you think?

I have an old Android 11 Teclast_T40_Plus_eea Tablet that stopped getting updates years ago.
I would like to repurpose it as an extended display for my computer.
I want to control the Tablet with my computers keyboard and mouse just like I would with an external monitor.
I have not been able to find anything like Synergy to do so on the google play store in android.
I had the Idea that I could unlock the boot loader and install an ARM64 version of Debian or Ubuntu on it instead as there is a Synergy V1 ARM64.deb file I could use.
So far I have been able to use adb and fastboot commands to access recovery mode but have been unable to get it to boot from OTG USB or SD card with ISO installer for ARM64.
My question is, what I am trying to do a thing, and is it possible to put a mainstream Linux OS on a generic tablet?
What do you think?
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