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
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
This exists. Get a cheap netbook and stick your Linux distro of choice on it, and then just use it to ssh to things.
This is what I did. I purchased a Lenovo Yoga 11e on eBay for $37. If you get the model that has an Intel processor, you can put Linux on it. With Ubuntu MATE, the touchscreen and auto screen rotation work out of the box. From there a VNC viewer is all that is needed. The laptop I received was in pristine condition.
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
Do netbooks still exist? I can’t seem to find them for sale anymore.
Lol dude what are you talking about? I just searched for “netbook” and the first few links are Amazon and Best Buy product listings for netbooks.
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I’m not sure how to stress this enough… I do not want another computer.
I do not want another computer.
I want a wireless interface to the computer I already have.
If they can make laptops for $37 they can make this for $1.