Linx 10" install O/S & more ?

FatRakoon

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Right, I really dont know why I have done this, but I have heard that the Linx Windows tablet, is the best one for putting Linux onto it?

So, I got one.

Now, before I do have a shot at killing it, I was wondering...

What version is best for a touch screen / tablet?

Can I reinstall windows afterwards should I decide its not to my liking?

Is there a specific version of Windows that I need? I know its Windows 8.1 with bing, but I do not have an ISO for that, plus I dont have a Licence number, so, I am thinking that it will have its own licence in-built?

If anyone has ANY info to help me play about with it, then I will be eternally in your debt.
 
Linux on Linx tablet? :eek:

Maybe. :o

Yes you can reinstall Windows afterwards as Linx tablet already has recovery partition that will reinstall Windows.

Over the last 2 years every Linux projects attempted to get Linux full functioned on tablets to run Linux drivers and apps all been failed so far.

Last few months somebody bought Linx 8 tablet and attempted to installed Ubuntu and successful booted on Linx but it was useless because there was no drivers for sound, battery level indicator, wifi, Bluetooth, touchscreen, screen orientation detection and screen brigthness settings.

Here is one tablet from Jolla running full functioned Linux based Sailfish OS that is capable to run Android and Linux apps.

Maybe Sailfish OS could work with Linx tablet.

http://www.jollausers.com/2014/09/how-to-install-sailfish-os-on-nexus-5-the-easy-way/
 
There seems to be some confusion over this then.

I have put Linux onto the Linx and there is no issues with it at all.
All devices are working perfectly, teh display, the sound etc all work absolutely fine and I have done nothing to it.

The only thing I had to do, was make sure the flash drive was formatted as GTP and it just installed first time

I have also gone back to Windows just fine.

My current thought is now putting Windows 10 onto it, because Windows 10 has the Tablet only mode and I think I would very much prefer that.

When I installed Linux, I used the internal as root and the SD card as /home and it went in in about 20 minutes.
 
Surprised to see you managed to installed Linux on Linx flawlessly. :eek:

No wondered few Linux experts struggled to installed Linux on Linx, explained nearly no Linux marketshare on tablets.

I wondered which Linux distribution did you installed on Linx?
 
Ok, maybe I am a bit of a fibber... It did NOT go completely flawlessly, I did have a few niggles, but nothing that I have never had from any number of other PCs.

I used Sabayon 15.3 the Desktop is XFCE and with using the keyboard and mouse, it worked fine. I saw no issues with it... I did NOT run it for that long though I will admit.

I am more than happy to try out any other distro? The vast majority of many people, is to use ubuntu but thats not me. I do use MiNT, but my favourite has been sabayon for many years purely because its not the norm. Similarly, if I have headaches with trying to install, I have used the spinbase install and I have found that I have had great sucess with that... Admittedly, I have also just been very lucky too!
 
I never heard of Sabayon before.

I tried Linux long time ago but very quickly get bored of it, nothing about it interested me and sticked with Windows.

I tried Puppy Linux, Slackware, Red Hat and Ubuntu, remembered there was about 57 Linux distros 15 years ago and I was not surprised to see 277 Linux distros on distrowatch.com.

Far way too many distros. :o

Ubuntu is the largest Linux distro marketshare with nearly 2 million users accorded to Ubuntu forum but Sabayon got nearly 16,000 users.
 
No, Sabayon is very much a niche market. Funny really because its far superior to ubuntu.

Far too many distros? LOL are you sure? he he

I can see the good, and the bad side of things.

The basics of Linux are the same no matter what distro you go for... What Linux is, is a car, every distro is the very same car with the very same engine, but each distro gives you a diofferent body shape, different colour scheme, and then the extras like CD / Radio / tinted windows etc...

The biggest killer for Linux that I can see, is not the different distros as such, but rather the Package management systems...

there is RPM or DEB and these both work wonderfully I feel, but there is also tarball, and I feel that there needs to be a complete overhaul to make absolutely every single distro 100% compatible with every other distro, and that you have only one package management system, so when you go online and you want to install a program that looks good, you have an option like Windows... At most, you will have a choice of 32 or 64 bit with a windows app, but with Linux, you have 32 or 64 DEB RPM or source and then you have Suse RPM or RedHat RPM or this or that... LOL -0 and Im a good one talking because Sabayon has its own too! - entropy!

ubuntu with 2million and Sabayon with 16K?

Nah, proves nothing. There are billions cockroaches too! - does not mean they are superior. LOL

I will however say something that I find very interesting, and that is, that I have a whole load of games on my steam account, and I have a fair load of them, not all of course, but a load of them for Linux too... Some are native to Linux, such as Half Life etc, but some others, I have installed through WINE, and I am happy to say that on my Linux Laptop, they actually run every bit as well as they do on the Windows one.

my Linux PC is even better... I was running that as a dual booting setup for a while, and I was doing lost of silly experiments, where I had Windows and Linux running alongside each other, using seperate Hard Drives though, and under each setup, I also had virtual PCs running the other one, so I had Linux running windows and Windows running linux ... Just to have a giggle more than anything, but this let me also compare them with benchmarking etc... I actually founf that Linux, even when running a game through Wine, actually ran faster than it did with proper windows!

I am myself incredibly close to simply ditching Windows antirely.

There is simply so much software that I have for windows, but almost all of it, will run under Wine.
 
FatRakoon said:
Far too many distros? LOL are you sure? he he

I can see the good, and the bad side of things.

The basics of Linux are the same no matter what distro you go for... What Linux is, is a car, every distro is the very same car with the very same engine, but each distro gives you a diofferent body shape, different colour scheme, and then the extras like CD / Radio / tinted windows etc...

The biggest killer for Linux that I can see, is not the different distros as such, but rather the Package management systems...

there is RPM or DEB and these both work wonderfully I feel, but there is also tarball, and I feel that there needs to be a complete overhaul to make absolutely every single distro 100% compatible with every other distro, and that you have only one package management system, so when you go online and you want to install a program that looks good, you have an option like Windows... At most, you will have a choice of 32 or 64 bit with a windows app, but with Linux, you have 32 or 64 DEB RPM or source and then you have Suse RPM or RedHat RPM or this or that... LOL -0 and Im a good one talking because Sabayon has its own too! - entropy!
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http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

I thought there are 277 Linux distros but I found other hidden page with list of another 262 distros so that made total of 539 Linux distros. :eek:

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=

Try out 539 Linux distros is far too much and bloody stupidity. What Linux distros developers should do is create far fewer like 10 distros that can generate different body shapes and colour schemes then users can download apps from Linux Store just like Windows Store. :p
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
Try out 539 Linux distros is far too much and bloody stupidity.
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Of course it is.

However... IF you check them out, what you will find, to be fair, is that a good 95% of them are identical to the next one.

For example, ubuntu, is based on Debian, but has been given a much more user friendly way about it. The popularity of Ubuntu has made it very popular with people and parties who have made their own distro, and they have based it heavily on ubuntu... Mint for example is really ubuntu, as is, probably the vast majority of all of those distros that you saw, so in reality, what you will probably find, is that they are all pretty much ubuntu but with different default apps and themes and so on.

AthlonXP1800 said:
then users can download apps from Linux Store just like Windows Store. :p
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Thats exactly what Linux users already do though?

for example, if I type in

apt-get -i firefox

then I get firefox, plus any extra files that I may need for it, such as my localised languages etc.

But they have their own package managers as I mentioned before and so I simply click on the icon and it downloads it, and sets it up for me etc... This is much much better than how windows does it.

The only issue you have here, is that you will be limited to the apps that the distro maker gives you ( unless you are willing to put in some work of course )
 
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