Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel 8 Mini on tablet

[xliang9550]

At least 2 conditions must be met. One is CPU architecture. The tablet must  
have an x86_64 processor in order to run Trisquel 8. The other requirement is  
that the tablet's firmware (UEFI) must allow users to disable Secure Boot.

For arm(64) platform, the situations are even worse. Almost all smart phones  
and tablets have boot loader locked down (something like Secure Boot). It's  
increasingly hard to unlock the boot loader (something like disabling Secure  
Boot on x86 computers), and some manufacturers don't allow unlocking boot  
loader at all (e.g. Apple and Huawei). Even if you had successfully unlocked  
the device, you'd find it unusable without lots of proprietary firmware  
(modem, WiFi, bluetooth, and even display all require non-free firmware to  
work).