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.

An old Thinkpad Yoga. Everything works.

Surface Pro 3 running Fedora

• The fact that it runs is good
• Gnome is not good
• The linux-surface kernel is a cool project, though I think I need to try a different distro

Joining the chorus of not-a-phone tablet with Linux. I’ve got PopOS installed on a Motion J3600 tablet that originally came with Windows 7. Modern Linux doesn’t appreciate the single-point touchscreen - I find I need to adjust most apps individually to play nice. And I can’t figure out how to disable the default on-screen keyboard so I can use a different one.

But it runs faster than it did on Win10, and I can keep using it, as opposed to Win11.

That’s probably not what you’ve been asking, but I have a Intel i7 tablet here with Windows 10 on it. I don’t really use it because Windows sucks, but I could try to install a good OS on it.

I have a Lenovo 10e Chromebook tablet running Postmarket Os.

• Setup was straightforward and relatively easy.
• The only major hardware failure was the built-in camera. Though I have much better cameras on multiple different devices. So it wasn’t a big loss. USF pen support worked out of the box. No issues, no special instructions. It was just there.
• The octocore four large arm cores, four small arm cores, provide a solid experience under KDE plasma. You aren’t going to win any CPU drag races, but it gets you where you want to go most of the time.
• The major downfall of this system is probably the four gigabytes of RAM. If you are a tab whore like myself. Or painting large documents, et cetera, in Krita. You will hit swap quickly, which degrades the experience a bit.
• the only other knock against it. I seem to remember was widevine support. (Netflix HBO Max etc) It’s not supported as well on many arm devices, but it is there if I remember correctly. However there were hoops to jump through.

When I was looking into Linux tablets I think dell latitude tablets were a possibility. But they weren’t 100% comparable.

i don’t know if you count this as a mobile* tablet, but i’m running arch on a m$ surface go 1 that i got mainly for art

hell there’s a whole kernel fork just for surface devices

ETA: *added this because i realized what comm i was on. what i’m talking about isn’t considered a tablet in the sense of one that runs a mobile operating system. oops.