Brax Open_Slate - newly announced Android/Linux tablet

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New video from Rob Braxman Tech announcing their project for a tablet reportedly capable of running Linux.

New Project Announcement: Brax Open_Slate - Android/Linux Tablet

The design, features and the announced SoC being a Mediatek make it interesting, specially the removable battery, expandable storage (M.2 slot) and the hardware kill switches.

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I think the timing is perfect.
Still considering to get myself an x86 Surface and install linux on it, why not that instead?

P.S. Hardware kill-switches are a must - an awesome job!

P.S.2 ssd slot, removable battery and a 3.5 inch jack - impressive!

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Rob Braxman has a long history of explaining in his weekly videos on YouTube and Odysee the way personal data is harvested and used by tech companies and governments. Well worth watching.

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I’m actually running a Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with Linux as my daily driver Laptop. I don’t even have dual-boot with Windows, just Linux and it works perfectly. I use the pen a lot and it works like a charm.

Also, I deployed two Microsoft Surface Go devices with Linux for my family which also run really well with Linux.

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I’m intrigued! Just one question… what Linux dist are you running?

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I’ve been running NixOS on it for one and a half years now, before that I used KDE Neon.

But it doesn’t really matter what distro you use, depending on the model it might only be important that you install the surface-kernel

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Thanks for info! I’ll probably try soon.

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