Half out of curiosity and half out of real interest I’d like to know what is the smallest (portable) device with a reasonable quality keyboard that could run an appropriate Linux distro and emacs and people have tested for actual long-term usability.

I’m looking at UMPCs and various 7-inch mini laptops you see on eBay.

Thanks!

  • AuroraDraco@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I have a Lenovo Chromebook Duet 2 and I haven’t regretted it at all. Graphical Emacs is important for me as I want to view my notes on it and I cant do that well with the terminal version. So that removed any Android/Apple tablet. Unfortunate as it may be, I don’t think there is any mature, budget Linux tablet and Chromebooks, which support Linux out of the box are the closest to that.

    It’s lightweight, with a 10 inch screen and I can comfortably use Emacs with the keyboard it comes with. You could go even smaller screen, but imo, after one point it stops being comfortable. So this is a very fine solution for me