Been trying to find a good tablet for productivity and recreation. Something that can be used for programming (Not web), and something that can play DRM content.

Ideally, something under $1000.

I’ve already looked at the Librem 11 and am considering it, but I want to know other (ideally, cheaper) options available.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Well, I picked up a Lenovo Duet 3i for fairly cheap so I could run FreeCAD on a device in my wood shop. It’s an Intel machine, one of those that the keyboard snaps off of. I’ve got Fedora Gnome on it, and it’s not too bad. The biggest issue I have with it is sometimes it comes out of suspend in portrait mode, and there’s no getting it into landscape mode with the keyboard attached, so you have to detach it, tip it a couple times, and it’s back.

    It’s an x86 laptop, software is pretty compatible. You might go for a Yoga rather than the Duet if you’re looking for programming; the tablet flop hinge plus kickstand is a bit more of an afterthought than I’d like for coding.

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      7 months ago

      Check out the “Screen Rotate” gnome extension (by shyzus). It adds a button in the gnome quick settings menu that allows you to disable auto rotate, and has the option to add a button to manually switch between portrait or landscape rotation.

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        That’s one of the biggest things I hate about Gnome, it aims to be as unfinished and feature barren as it can be while still booting to a desktop, and you’re supposed to install the rest of it from third parties.