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What is the device you want, but that does not exist? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jonuno@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

They generally work great with any x86 CPU - doesn’t need to be only intel. If you get an ARM-based netbook, just make sure to use the architecture-appropriate image for your distro.

That said, if you grab an older model, you may run into some hardware weirdness. Source: years ago I did this with an old Asus netbook that had a 32-bit UEFI and a 64-bit CPU, and I had to do some weird hackery in the ISO before writing it to the flash drive to get it to load the install image at all