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It's pretty bad. The only place it sort of thrives is Amazon's tablets and android ereaders.

They are all (AFAIK) based around android 9 or 10.

You are seriously almost better off just doing something like a windows tab converted to a linux machine.

Touch and Linux is still a terrible experience (vs W8/W10). Windows 11 replaces the useful W10 gesture (edge screen swipe) for win+tab with a widget for ads so I have no hopes in MS

Linux has multiple touch-based interfaces these days, including Phosh, Plasma Mobile and the upcoming GNOME Mobile. The interfaces themselves seem to work quite well and are broadly comparable with AOSP (or sometimes better). The Firefox browsing experience (based on the desktop version of Firefox with custom "mobile" tweaks) and things like the software keyboard tend to still be subpar compared with what's available on AOSP.

It's been a while since I've tried it. I assume the experience got better with ubuntu putting in around ubuntu touch but honestly I can't say if it's much better.

> They are all (AFAIK) based around android 9 or 10.

That’s not what I see when I lookup tablets. My old cheap Samsung Tab S6 Lite (2022 version) has Android 14 with security patch from May 2025.

My SO bought a cheap Xiaomi tablet this month with Android 15 and patch from August 2025.

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