The bluetooth appears to work but seems flaky. I haven’t spent a lot of time on it but I can’t get it to connect to anything although it does eventually list devices but is much slower than 20.04 at doing this. My Linx 1010b Tablet only boots to bios screen even when I try to boot from USB POWER + Vol Up, it recognise the USB, and the software, but it just won't boot from it. I a so called bootable USB that I got from Linx. But NOTHING. It still works, charges up but not past the six box BIOS screen. HELP ME Please!!!!!

Auto-rotate screen was working in the installer, but not here in the installed system. That may be due to my setting rotate in grub. If you are removing everything currently on the tablet, you can press the “Delete All” button. This will free up all the space on the tablet’s internal storage for your new Linux installation. Very handy, I only just flattened my Linx 7 to do a clean install of windows 8.1 pro and have a few driver issues so these could be a life saver! I found a ‘solution’ for the Linx 1020 touch screen not working problem - it is a real quirk. Here it is: Since these tablets only have 2GB RAM enabling zswap is probably a good idea. Just add “zswap.enabled=1” to “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT”, update-grub and reboot

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I have spent the last week messing around with my old Linx1010b using your guide. I have successfully installed Ubuntu 20.04.2 and then upgraded it to 21.04. It seems fine just weirdly need to detach the keyboard give the screen a flip from portrait to landscape so that it recognises the change in orientation then reconnect the keyboard. Other than that it seems fine.

Thanks Ian for this guide - I’ve resurrected an old 1020, wiped the (now unsupported) Windows OS and installed Fedora 37. It’s no longer potential e-waste! Whether you dual-boot with Windows or wipe out Windows completely and just use Linux is up to you. Linux is now suitable for daily use on this tablet, so I’ve wiped off Windows completely. If you’re not sure, you can dual-boot for a while—but note that if you have two operating systems on the tablet, both operating systems will be very limited in the amount of space available to them. Buy It Direct Ltd is a limited company registered in England. Registered number 04171412. Registered office: Unit A Trident Business Park, Leeds Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD2 1UA.Connectivity is provided through micro-USB and Mini-HDMI connections along with WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. These versions do not install alongside Windows properly or set up GRUB properly with the system’s 32-bit UEFI. Follow this procedure to get them installed:

Hopefully there will be some difference there between yours and mine that will indicate where the problem lies. From that base, Windows should update itself to 20H2 and all the hardware, drivers etc. will continue to work. However, it won’t update any further by itself. From Microsoft Image Ian, thanks for a really comprehensive and accurate guide. I get all the way to the last step - installing the boot loader. I got on error running update-grub saying that GRUB_TIMEOUT can't be set if GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is also set. So I commented out the latter. I’m wondering what the difference is as I’ve used exactly the same hardware and software as in the article, and presumably this wasn’t a problem for you? I found this video on YouTube quite helpful after first installing Fedora with GNOME (Helped a newbie like myself anyway).Just thought I’d add… I’ve just successfully installed Kubuntu (KDE desktop) first time using these instructions, which are excellent. Initial findings… Help.... I've lost bluetooth on my 1010 since the windows 10 upgrade. Can anyone suggest a fix, do i just need to install a driver? When I try to shut it down, either by shutdown -h now or via the GUI it will go through the whole process, the screen will turn off, but then about 5 seconds later it will start up again. It seems that sometimes it will shut down if I have power plugged in, but its not guaranteed.

Details how to adjust the battery management and update drivers can be found by searching online forums. Do you know which part of the install it got to when you received these errors (for either operating system)?To get this far I’ve used information from the following places. I’m extremely grateful to the people that wrote them! I’m afraid I don’t know what Bliss OS uses for an installer. The Android x86 software I used installs the Android partitions as files inside the Windows partition, and ties into the Windows boot process to chain them - probably why it’s so slow! Hi Ian, I've been messing around with doing this and managed to do this without your tutorial, only found this one when looking into fixing grub XD Typical, i spent 3 days doing what could be done in an hour with this guide XD Very many thanks for your reply. I had a look at the Fedora bug reports but couldn’t see anything relevant to me. With regard to your questions: