Hi and welcome @JMA I moved your post to the Off Topic category as we do for all "will you port Ubuntu Touch to my device" kind of question. You can try and port Ubuntu Touch to your device following this guide: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2068/halium-first-steps

@alan_g Okay, I will read that, thank you

@diagon Good Morning or whatever time of day it is where you are. Firstly no agenda, spin or underlying plan/scheme behind my decisions at all ever. That is not what we are about. Next I think @AppLee has expanded on the main reasons your post has been highlighted twice now. Except for this point and it might help. There is always an argument about removing links for whatever reason from threads unless they are totally and obviously offensive. Yours were getting flagged as spam so what to do. This time they were removed but I believe there is enough info left for people to do their own web search to find out where you are coming from without leaving them or the forum open to potential spam links. As I have already said if you have reasons you prefer to use Signal over Telegram fine, please expand on them in a way no matter how technical and involved. A long list of links is not a reason for or against. We try hard to keep political and non UT dscussions off this Forum as it is not what it is here for and there are other and better places for that. We have no objection to robust discussion (and there have been a few) as long as it is conducted in a polite and friendly way. So please enjoy and feel to contribute along those lines. We also use this for reference https://ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct

Since UT is only just now moving to 5.12, I guess we will have plenty of time to see once the dust has settled on this. Either upstream will work with "unstable" qt6 or maybe there will be a fork, who knows.

I've had a few problems with booting on the Surface 3 when using Ubuntu. Sometimes you have to reburn the disk, perhaps try using a different burning utility. Not everything is supported, there are a few minor problems here and there. It uses the 4.10 kernel which, if memory serves, supports the trackpad and touchscreen at least. For backlight brightness control you may have to install an RC for 4.13 or something. jiofilocalhtml https://forpc.onl/snaptube-for-pc

PeerTube V3 with live streaming and more is out today : https://framablog.org/2021/01/07/peertube-v3-its-a-live-a-liiiiive/.

@damholt Since the tablet is Android 9 based, it would be needed to do a Halium 9 port. But you still need device, kernel and vendor sources to build Halium. And after a first short search in the www, I did not find any sources for this device.

@scienz Hi, You don't need to root your device to install Ubuntu Touch, just unlock the bootloader... If you need help with backup and reinstalling Android, this is not the best place to ask for it. I'll recommend the XDA forum. That's why I moved your post to the off topic section (more an Android question).

@applee Hear! Hear!

@dipuvimal Hi, The list of compatible devices can be found here: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ If your device is not in the list, you migh want to check this post for how to make a port for your device: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2068/halium-first-steps

@joebeach Happy to hear that you have received it. I should receive it in next days. I am also a Patreonsupporter of UBports and I hope too that both projects will succeed and spread worldwide.

@lakotaubp Thanks.

Device is sold !

@elastic Thanks for the tip! I was going to ask "where's the camera?", but finally found it. Not intuitive, as you say; I was looking for an icon like a camera or lens. A closer look at the names revealed it...Megapixel :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

@emphrath In Europe, software patents are not legal but in spite of this, the IPO (European Patent Office) does not hesitate to register them even if they have no effect in the European courts. It is a battle that has been going on for a long time in order not to arrive at the very harmful situation that prevails in the USA (or, for that matter, a reverse movement to start opposing it exists). More information about that on FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) website.

At first I thought the presenter had drank too much of the Purism Kool-Aid. It seemed he was equating Linux Phones with the Librem 5. So I was pleasantly surprised to see he had also tried other Linux offerings out there, and that he had such positive things to say about them. His way of presenting is not my cup of tea, but all in all I feel it was a fair introduction for people who are new to the subject, but unlikely to try it out for themselves.