I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2

Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by solardev on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:04PM (#31876339)

Is that true even if you compile AOSP from source? (not being sarcastic here, just never looked into this)

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by idle_zealot on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:17PM (#31876462)

You lose the spyware if you use AOSP (except any that’s baked into your OEM’s kernel blobs), but you also lose a lot of functionality. You can regain some by using a community-maintained AOSP-based OS like Lineage, but chances are that a bunch of device-specific hardware/software features will still be missing.

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by chopin on Saturday June 25, 2022 @05:18PM (#31878818)

I am writing this from a Fairphone 4 with e/OS installed (AOSP based) and don't miss anything so far.

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by chopin on Saturday June 25, 2022 @05:22PM (#31878837)

To add: my wife has a Samsung and can't add a shortcut for locking the phone on the lock screen (needed to enforce PIN) which the Fairphone enables.

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by solardev on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:28PM (#31876558)

I see, thank you for the explanation!

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