On 30/05/16 20:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2016 14:46:02 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >> On 05/28/2016 09:03 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >>> I was just about to spring for a mid range MS surface pro 4 tablet >>> when I saw a few posts about hardware problems ... MS hardware is >>> usually solid (in contrast to their software! :) >>> >>> Are there any other similar tablets out there that are gentoo/Linux >>> friendly that are worth looking at? >>> >>> I have been using an old Samsung android tablet and google has just >>> crossed the line and creeped me out past what I can tolerate so its >>> time to move on :( >>> >>> BillK >>> >> >> Aquaris M10 >> >> https://store.bq.com/gl/ > > Have you actually run Gentoo on one of these? > >
Tried to do gentoo on android but was missing some essential settings in the kernel available ... and its not the most powerful beast :) I did eventually build a custom cyanogenmod but in the end decided that with a failing battery, it wasn't worth it :( The surface 4 is running gentoo but but I am running out of chickens trying to get the bootloader going ... seems like grub cant see the NVMe ssd the sp4 uses and rEFInd is being ... difficult :) EFI is like bad magic ... doesn't really work! My last efi adventure was an apple air some 4 years or more ago (which eventually worked) - it hasn't progressed much in that time. BillK
