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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • You can run several custom roms on a Galaxy Tab but the process is slightly infuriating. Well, it’s very infuriating. I finally got it to work after about two moths of fairly-regular futzing with it.

    The key is to find the ROM for your specific model number before you buy - and don’t get anything carrier locked if possible.

    Pixel is really the best option because the custom ROM process for it just works pretty easily. Everything else - including and especially Samsung is ridiculous. It can be done, yes, but it’s a lot of searching through forums and finding things that don’t work.




  • hehe. Agree Ubuntu is probably your best bet for ease of install and getting up to mischief quickly.

    OpenSUSE is not for beginners. Neither is Gentoo. Nor Slax. I mean - don’t let that stop you - but I tried all three recently and . . . it was more frustrating than fun. They’re powerful, yes, and I know some old heads that won’t go near anything else. But for beginners? Noooooo.

    Edit: Sorry, OpenSUSE is probably fine, they didn’t have a 32bit version so I didn’t try it. Also, elementary os 8 is pretty slick. And PopOS. Both have very easy install & setup wizards.