<![CDATA[Surface Tablet]]>I want to share some thoughts regarding UT on tablets: I just went through the process of finding a device to replace my 12 year old laptop - and got excited when I heard about the JingPad with UT support. It seems this is a very nice combination - for the people that have such a device, I cannot find one anywhere for reasons on the manufacturers side I guess.
So I got my hands on a Surface Tablet and put Debian, linux-surface packages, + Waydroid on there and I think this is also a very nice combination, it seems to work quite well using it either with a keyboard and in tablet mode when using Android apps. This just got me thinking - this would be a very nice device to port UT to - given that these devices are widely available. This would solve the availability problem for sure. I don't know however if there are hardware related or other issues that would prevent running UT on there.
So just to emphasize, this is not meant as criticism or such in any way, just a report from out in the wild with the statement that I would have chosen UT for that system if it was available 🙂

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/7614/surface-tabletRSS for NodeSat, 06 Jun 2026 17:09:00 GMTFri, 25 Mar 2022 15:07:19 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Surface Tablet on Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:11:40 GMT]]>@moem of course the most likely answer to this post was "nice idea, why don't you do it yourself" and I understand why 🙂

Not knowing anything about porting it seems hard for me to do anything meaningful - but actually, reading this: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/x86/ I understand I should be able to just install Lomiri as an alternative Desktop, knowing that its experimental. Would that approach give the full UT experience, also install the core apps along with it?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/63215https://forums.ubports.com/post/63215Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:11:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surface Tablet on Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:24:58 GMT]]>Dalton said something similar too some time back. They are a nice device and easy to get hold of. Just needs that missing person to give it a try and that will not be me either before anyone points that out 🙂

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/63212https://forums.ubports.com/post/63212Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:24:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surface Tablet on Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:25:44 GMT]]>Sounds like a nice device! And since you own one, you would be the prime candidate to port it. On the other hand, isn't that tablet made with a totally architecture than Android? That might be an obstacle.

@ra said in Surface Tablet:

I don't know however if there are hardware related or other issues that would prevent running UT on there.

I bet you can find out!

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