There’s two models - the Duet 3 which comes with a Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 @ 2.55 GHz CPU, and the 3i which comes with a Intel Celeron N4020. I would rather use the Duet 3, due to the cover, and since I am already familiar with the feel of the device due to having owned a Surface Pro 4, but I’d like to choose whichever works best for running Linux.
Edit: Just for additional information I’ll be using it as a note-taking tablet with xournal++, not for any heavy tasks
Snapdragon is an ARM CPU which means if you can find a distro to run on it, it’ll likely be an Android custom ROM, whereas Celeron is x86 and should run most Linux distros without issue.
Lol, this is not even remotely accurate. I run fleets of arm64 machines all over the place. Pretty much every distro out there builds arm64/aarch64 packages. Wherever you read this from needs to be shut down.
Yeah linux support for ARM SOCs is not ideal. There might be some fork of the kernel working with specific proprietary driver blobs. But in a few years its basically abandonware.
RISC-V is what we should try to make happen as a replacement for x86, instead of yet another proprietary IP.
This is not true at all. There are tons of Linux Distros running natively on ARM.
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.