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People seem to love it. But it’s highly proprietary and there seems to be planned obsolescence built into their model

I see what you did there.

I’ve got a Dell Latitude 7200 2-in-1 that’s basically a Surface clone and it runs Mobian Plasma Mobile fine with basically large print settings (legally blind). Gnome/phosh didn’t fare so well, but I’m hardly someone you’d call a Gnome fan anyway. I tried it, and it’s a little more polished but also more “opinionated” in the wrong ways.

Biggest complaints about Mobian Plasma Mobile on this thing are:

1. I want an encrypted drive. You can make it happen, but you’d better be able to connect a keyboard to type a password or do something else in no-man’s-land. It’s just not a supported thing.
2. I really wish I had something more like Heliboard on this thing. Touch keyboard is sub-optimal.
3. QConsole feels … limited.

There are a few specific app glitches. Signal doesn’t behave the way I’d like it to for example.

Otherwise this is a great mobile tablet. It’s like an iPad with a keyboard cover, though it’s meant to be in landscape mode, though rotation works great. The keyboard can be left behind almost everywhere. The pen works well and magnets anywhere. The tablet’s got a SIM slot, but I’m not using it, and though it had WiFi 5 when I got it, I upgraded that and the SSD. There was a little fussiness with the trackpad on the keyboard cover, but I fixed it.

I got this thing to be an eReader mostly.