Hello,
I am currently thinking about getting a PineTab2. I need a new tablet because my old one starts come apart day by day and I want to switch to Linux as much as possible. I use my tablet mostly to write (LibreOffice and LaTeX), organize personal documents and data, visit some websites on my breaks and really rarely to code simple little tasks in Python (I mostly did this while I was still in university).
So would the PineTab2 be a good product for all this? Has anybody experience with it or own one themself? My Linux experiences are limited but not non existent. Thanks in advance.
Ok. Patching my own drives sounds like a little bit much for me. Could I find templates for that online or is this so much dependent on the particular hardware that it is like a case by case solution.
Very much dependent on the particular hardware - here, the pinetab2 has some support. The danctnix mobile linux community maintains builds for it, so it’s a subset of Arch on Arm.
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/danctnix-packages/tree/main/pine64/device-pine64-pinetab2
outside of that, there’s some limited support for postmarketOS and mobian
A good place to start understanding the challenges you’d face would be on the wiki:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab2_Releases
Alright. That is much stuff to read through. Thanks for your help.
Two questions I have already, is the preinstalled OS useable for a rather casual user and does the workaround with the WI-FI dongles works as easy as just picking the right one and plugging it in?