Just install the previous version and lock it.

Sounds like a problem with the devs. Check ProtonDB to make sure.

This is not a thing because of Deck.

Were you launching a game that requires online presences? Kinda seems like it.

Want to provide some more context?

Sure, but that’s not the question here, nor is it really feasible to expect OP to know the technical challenges of doing so if they are asking this question in the first place.

An e-reader, so it’s unlikely to be of much use.

Can it run Linux? Probably already does.

Does that mean it can run a full desktop? Nope.

It has a 533MHz CPU and 256MB of RAM, so it can run a stripped down kernel and do the basics, but that’s about it. Even if you got XFce running, your not going to be running a browser or any kind of games. That’s even before you think about how you’d run the display driver.

Horrible idea

Gnome is pretty much the only game in town for tablet devices. KDE does have a superior OSK in my experience, but overall it’s just bad at everything else you’d want for a tablet format.

Can’t believe I need to keep stating this around here, but Linux is THE most deployed OS on the entire planet. It’s not even close.

Whether it’s used for Desktop or not is irrelevant.

Everything will mostly work out of the box without any intervention. However, this is one of ASUS’ most problematic models even on Windows due to the dual screens and touch features.

Check this out: https://github.com/Fmstrat/zenbook-duo-linux

There’s also a handful of other repos that specifically address ASUS feature compatibility for their odd models. You should be fine.

None. Never.

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You’re using a service that is proxying your data. They can read all of it.

If you don’t care, then good for you. You’re still the product as being a user because whatever you happen to be serving may eventually become interesting to them.

If not, no harm done. It costs pennies to host a 24/7 load balanced reverse proxy. You just can’t do it yourself.

Not sure what you’re asking here, but are you talking about the voice part, the TTS pat, or the interaction?

Absolutely not true 🤣🤣

Where’d you hear this?

Also, Silver blue is immutable. You are just full of bad info, bud.

Fedora is fine for the specifics you mentioned. If for some reason you feel the need to go immutable later, SB is alright-ish.

100% untrue. While a North Bridge controller can detect and attempt to set the clock frequency, there is absolutely no way to tell if both pieces of a mismatched pair will actually support the timings suggested or set by the controller, which will almost certainly default to whatever the on-board memory supports.

That along with the unknowns of whether it attempts to set channel ranks, which is almost certainly NOT an option to manually configure in a Thinkpad.

Not sure where you heard otherwise, but you’ve been misinformed.

This machine is also working with memory soldered on the board which comes with a whole host of other unknowns, which is why you look up what the timings are first and attempt to match that.

If the RAM timings are not exactly the same, you’re going to have instability issues. This is why ts always recommended to install pairs of the same exact model and brand, the clock timings.

I doubt that BIOS is going to give you the specs you need, but somewhere you’ll likely be able to find the timings and compatible memory for this machine. You’ll generally need something faster than what’s installed so it can step it’s timings down to be more in sync.

Anyone in these comments claiming there is a big difference between “gaming distros” and any other is flat wrong.

Any distro works. It’s about the initial experience they want without having to fuss about changes. You can switch Desktop Environment on any distro easily, none of them offer massive gaming performance differences over the others. It’s subjective. For a beginner, don’t recommend immutable. That’s pretty much it.

It’s accurate