Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet For Running a Real GNU/Linux Distribution?

bmsleight writes "Android is nice, but I do not want to pay to print or be beholden to the cloud to do everything or chroot. I just want a tablet that can run a MythTv-client, OpenOffice.org and good old apt-get instead of an app market. I have a Joggler — which costs £60 — I'd like something similar but with a battery, a bigger screen, and other modern tablet features. So, what's the best tablet for running a real GNU/Linux distribution (ideally Debian)? Bonus points for the best apt-get-able distribution that works with a tablet."

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[PopeRatzo]

Tablets are supposed to be the escape from that maintenance nightmare, and you people are trying your damnedest to turn it back into a spec-obsessed nerd playground.

Are you really telling people what they are "supposed" to do with their hardware?

I realize I risk being modbombed for asking this, but who the fuck are you to tell people how they're supposed to use their hardware?

Maybe you were just joking and I'm too pissed off from the Bears losing to Denver to get the joke, but personally, it makes me really happy when people make their own minds up about what kind of hardware/software combinations they're going to use and what they're going to use it for and whether or not they're going to wear pants when they do it. It shows that not everyone has been completely infected with the malware that is marketing.

Man, I'm so outraged that you think your balls are big enough that you can decide what someone should and should not do with technology, I'm ready to go by an ExoPC and run mythdroid (whatever the hell that is) just because you said I'm not "supposed" to.

And when you're ready to apologize, fix me a drink on your way back here. Outrage is thirsty work.