The Fedora installer is reasonably easy to use. Firstly it will prompt you to select your keyboard layout; after that it will present the “Installation Summary” menu. The other big Linux desktop environment, KDE Plasma, also works fairly well. Again this is a heavyweight desktop like GNOME, so it can feel a little slow. It’s also not quite as touch-oriented, but while I think it works better with a mouse or touchpad than the touchscreen, it’s still perfectly usable. I have tested Fedora’s KDE “spin” and can confirm it sets up KDE just fine, so if that’s your preference, use the Fedora KDE spin image from the start. To round things off, I then went into Optional Updates and installed the Realtek Bluetooth driver from there. Once installed, Bluetooth started working again—so I believe that’s now a fully functional tablet on the latest Windows 10!

After copying files and configuring the system, the installer will show an error message because it failed to install GRUB. This is OK — installing GRUB is the last step, so the rest of the install has worked fine. I upgraded 2 of them to Windows 10 Pro hoping that would sort out the problems but both still had the camera and wireless connection issues. One other thing when the camera is working okay and they want to use to capture movie clips the sound on them is really bad unless the subject is less then 5 yards away from you. We had a Maths Week at the end of the last academic year and after recording some of a class they resorted to using an IPad as the clips were just not suitable to be used in a presentation to parents. There should be a line that reads GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash". Edit that so it reads GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="intel_idle.max_cstate=0 quiet splash".

If you are removing everything currently on the tablet, you can press the “Delete All” button. This will free up all the space on the tablet’s internal storage for your new Linux installation. To get this far I’ve used information from the following places. I’m extremely grateful to the people that wrote them! These versions do not install alongside Windows properly or set up GRUB properly with the system’s 32-bit UEFI. Follow this procedure to get them installed: If you’re using a non-standard setup, some of the following sections might provide some useful information and code to fix problems you may have. From here on, we assume a reasonable level of knowledge with Linux, disk partitioning etc. Screen Rotation Since these tablets only have 2GB RAM enabling zswap is probably a good idea. Just add “zswap.enabled=1” to “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT”, update-grub and reboot

HOWTO: Install Linux on a Linx 1010B Tablet | Guide | Ian Renton Ian Renton Blog Projects « Guide HOWTO: Install Linux on a Linx 1010B Tablet I've also previously recommended Rufus for use with Fedora images, due to issues with Fedora Media Writer. As of December 2022 (Fedora Workstation 37), Fedora Media Writer seems to have improved in reliability, so I now recommend it as it's easier to use than Rufus. Note: I believe this should be the right kernel version that gets installed with Ubuntu 15.10. If it doesn’t boot at all, when you try to boot from GRUB in a moment, press C and enter the linux and initrd commands yourself, using tab completion to find the right versions.Start up the tablet (no need to hold Volume Up any more!), and it should show you GRUB for a few seconds, then start up to the Ubuntu login screen. However, depending on the choice of login screen this may produce a “low graphics mode” error on startup and fail to display the login screen. In this eventuality it’s easiest just to perform the login in portrait orientation. Onboard setup Set the disk you will install grub into the bootloader of. The example here # is my internal storage on the tablet. disk =/dev/mmcblk1 When it comes to step 3 of the installation, you should be offered to “Install Ubuntu alongside Windows Boot Manager”. Don’t choose this, instead choose “Something Else”.