On 03/12/2018 23.58, TimW wrote:   
   > This is a HP envy x2. It's a windows 8 tablet with a keyboard that is   
   > detachable. Quite a nice bit of hardware in many ways but even with   
   > windows 8 reset to factory and updated to windows 8.1 it is painfully   
   > slow and windows 8 does still suck even with a touch screen. The specs are:   
   > https://www8.hp.com/uk/en/ad/envy-x2/specs.html   
   > and https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c03596892   
   >   
   > So I thought another OS might be good but I have totally failed to get   
   > it to boot off a DVD or a usb stick and google tells me many others have   
   > failed before me, in fact nobody has ever made this thing run linux   
   > afaict. I have tried to boot from both 64 and 32 bit isos being somewhat   
   > confused as to why a modern tablet would be running a 32 bit windows.   
   >   
   > So am I wasting my time trying to get linux onto it? Is there something   
   > clever I can do like make a virtual disk on the c drive, or install from   
   > the sd card? or some kind of wubi type arrangement?. I guess I am still   
   > going to have driver problems. I don't want to put it back on ebay but I   
   > could. Is there a similar table that would run linux? I wanted to have a   
   > tablet for when I am speaking/teaching from notes. Like people do with   
   > ipads.   
      
   I have a "Lenovo Yoga 30011IBR"   
      
      
      
   It can be considered a tablet with keyboard, or a small laptop. An   
   hybrid. It comes with a rotating rust disk which I replaced with a   
   bigger SSD, so I have both Windows and Linux. Linux uses the touch   
   screen as if it is a mouse, so it doesn't really behave as a tablet (at   
   least on XFCE). Maybe there is some other Linux desktop (software) that   
   behaves as a tablet.   
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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