Linx 1010 10.1-Inch Tablet - Black (Intel Atom Z3735F 1.33 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB Storage, WLAN, Bluetooth, Camera, Windows 10) (Renewed)

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Setting yourself apart from the rest is a difficult task in the overly saturated tablet market, especially when there are identical counterparts sold under other brands, but that doesn't mean the Linx 10 isn't a robustly put together bit of kit. SeatDefaults] display-setup-script = xrandr -o right && xinput set-prop "pointer:Goodix Capacitive TouchScreen" 'Coordinate Transformation Matrix' 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1 I did have a few issues, mainly caused by the tablet only having a single micro USB port so the entire install had to be done on battery, which ran out while the installation process said it was configuring software, but on reboot I was amazed to find Fedora was on there and appears to work

EFI is a complicated beast and I’m not super knowledgeable about it myself! Part of it is baked into the board firmware in the same way as BIOS, but an EFI partition is also required on disk, along with GPT replacing the older disk MBR. (Most EFI enabled firmware is still able to boot from MBR disks, never tried it on the Linx tablet though.) The firmware comes from the device manufacturer, while partitions on disk generally come from an operating system you have installed - though third party EFI boot loaders like rEFInd are available (I use rEFInd to switch between Windows and Linux on my desktop PC). Want to know how slow? I have been charging it from this afternoon from about 3 pm to 1 am the next day, which is 11%. Yep, I’ll let that sink in – horrible ain’t it? I am going to try other chargers and see if there are any firmware updates but just be warned this tablet can take ages to charge.

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Web browsing is pretty much the bread and butter of this device and not surprisingly this tablet does the job fine. You can easily browse the World Wide Web with Google Chrome and keep quite a lot of tabs open without seeing anything noticeable. Other note, I had to use safe graphics or the screen would blank & the install would stop, scroll down to the “Troubleshooting” entry in the initial grub menu to get to safe/basic graphics 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. My adapter is made by Suyama, I had a keyboard, mouse & flash drive hooked in, power connected & switched to charge, switching to OTG killed the tablet, so you may have to play around with settings as other manufacturers may differ Set the disk you will install grub into the bootloader of. The example here # is my internal storage on the tablet. disk =/dev/mmcblk1

Press “Boot Manager” and you’ll see your USB device in the list. Press it to continue. (If you don’t see it, your tablet may have Secure Boot enabled. Play around in the setup menu until you find the option to disable Secure Boot, then press F10 on the keyboard to save, and repeat this step.) Auto-rotate screen was working in the installer, but not here in the installed system. That may be due to my setting rotate in grub. There now seems to be a solution for the sound issue, highlighted above. It is in the link that describes the problem.

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One more thing i can note (don’t really know if it will help) is that the BSOD will only be visible for a short period (had to use slow motion camera to even read the msg) if i have any partition on the disk. If the disk is blank the message will stay on screen until force reboot. Let’s get the boring stuff out of the way first – the actual hardware that is inside the Linx 1010. Firstly it is no Surface Pro and the hardware is quite low end but let’s avoid being biased until we do our tests. The actual specs are.

So a pretty strong battery … but that is the flaw. The tablet itself takes forever to charge using the built-in micro USB. Sadly there is no other power connector and I tried many high-speed cables, wall adaptors and my trusty PC and the results were the same – it was very slow charging. Set the boot partition on the disk used by Linux. You will probably need # to leave this blank for Ubuntu with standard install options and no dual-boot # But on Fedora for example, this should be set to /dev/mmcblk1p2. boot = # Set a temporary location in which to mount the root partition. tempmount =/mnt/targetThe last game I tried was naturally Final Fantasy XIV which did work at quite a low frame rate (around 20-30fps). I was able to do this by turning down every single setting, lowering the number of objects I could see at once and setting the resolution down to VGA (640×480). I did not try any dungeons or raids as I could not connect my Xbox One Wifi Adaptor due to using the other USB port for the flash drive (and Bluetooth never worked on this controller although the device did see it). Congratulations! You’re done! You should be able to connect to WiFi, use the tablet with or without the keyboard, and do almost everything you'd like to do with the tablet. Unless you'd like to explore other operating systems or desktop environments, you can stop reading here. The following error occurred while installing the boot loader. The system will not be bootable. Would you like to ignore this and continue with installation? If GNOME feels sluggish, it can be slightly improved by turning off animations. This is possible using the “GNOME Tweaks” tool that you can install from the “Software” app. Out of interest I also tried the Stream in-house streaming or whatever it was called and it worked pretty well. Some hiccups here with the frame rate but it was playable.