Got old x86 10.1’’ tablet for free, with one “small” caveat - 1 Gb of DDR3 RAM and 16 Gb of internal storage. It had Win 10 Home from factory, version from 2018 - which was able to squeeze into 600-700 Mb of RAM, leaving 300 to user.

Well, Antix works kinda decent, consuming 200 Mb when idle. MX Linux (xfce version) looks good but eats the same 700 Mb…

But the real depths of pain were making touchscreen work… spent 8 hours just on that and failed miserably. Tomorrow will go for a cheap android tablet…

The only thing it needs to provide - working flowkey app.

  • rmuk@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    I used to have an iMac that I loved (screen was excellent) but it quickly became a shitbox (because Apple) so I turned it into a X Server for my far more powerful Linux box. Is there a modern equivalent of that? Basically turn it into a thin client?

    Edit: for kiosks, Windows 10 can be quite happy on 1GB RAM, but that 16GB storage is a problem.

    • nyan@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Is there a modern equivalent of that? Basically turn it into a thin client?

      Well, X is still out there with its thin client capabilities intact. There are Wayland-compatible VNC clients and servers, if one isn’t big on X. SPICE is intended for connecting to VMs as servers. RDP if you want to use a Windows box as a server.

      For a machine such as the OP describes, it would also be possible to install a tailored distro and software selection into the onboard space and place /home and such on a network drive, although that makes it impossible to take the tablet out of range of the LAN. If the touchscreen doesn’t work under either the Wacom or libinput drivers, it would probably be a waste of time, though.

      (Really, 16GB is plenty for the distro itself—if I remove the three kernel source trees, a couple of games, and some FreePascal stuff, my desktop system minus /home would fit in that, and it’s anything but minimalistic.)