Time to switch to LL?

[LinuxNoob]

lol hoops. I have a pandigital I have in the garage under a bunch of paint cans. I wonder if I can install linux on that!! 

never mind! hahah

[bbaker6212]

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On my laptop i have been running LL for some time. But on my tablet i have windows 10. It came with the tablet. Been thinking of installing LL on tablet as well but no idea if thats even possible or that everything would work. For what i use the tablet for windows 10 works, so unless i find a 1000% fool proof and working method of getting linux on the tablet it has to do with windows 10

Can you please post model and specs of the tablet.
Usually tablets are ARM based cpu's , so Using a linux distro with ARM release my be possible.....
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Its a Teclast X98 Pro
Specs:

CPU – Quad Core 1.44GHz, up to 2.24GHz CPU
Chipset – Intel Atom X5-Z8500 (Cherry Trail T4 Z8500) processor
Camera – 5 MP Rear Camera With LED Flash | 2 Megapixel Front Camera
RAM – 4GB | ROM – 64GB and Supports MicroSD (TF) external storage up to 128GB
Display – Screen size 9.7 inches HD
Battery – 8000mAh Lithium-ion Battery
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So seeing that it is an Intel CPU, it should be possible. However with a quick Google search of your tablet + ubuntu i came across this-

Teclast x98 air 3g with linux
There is a known issue that you have to use 32bit UEFI with many of these Baytrail devices but all the 64bit Linux distro’s use 64bit UEFI.  A special build of Ubuntu exists.  You could try that, or use the same technique to get Mint working.  Also, often to boot USB on some devices, at least with Mint, you have to turn “secure boot” off in the bios settings.
http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/tecla...ith-linux/

AND
This post shows all the hoops you must jump through to get Mint installed from USB with an Atom device’ 32bit UEFI.  Keep in mind even after this you may need to, depending on your device, upgrade the Kernel and other drivers to get things working like audio and wifi.  The post also goes through his shrinking the Windows partition to make room for Linux Mint.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph...7#p1065977

You could try those methods with LinuxLite, maybe let us know if you were successful.
If you have a spare HDD/Flash swap out and run some testes maybe ....? Depends on how much work you are willing to put into it.
It does not look easy though.

Here is another link-- http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/...175542356/

A simple Google search and 15 minutes of time, i came up with alot of info....
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Thanks for the info. Will have a look into things later next week, got some other things going first.
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There's much more to it than that.  The biggest problem is there is no direct support yet for the Wifi device - if yours has the Realtek RTL8723bs.
Search for "XJubuntu" a guy is building a custom Ubuntu distro for this.  His website is in Spanish but there's a google translate button there. You can also look him up on the TechTablets forum.