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I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2

I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable, excellent battery life, and a servicable keyboard.

For a while, I tried a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. It meets the hardware requirements, well sort of. The problem is with performance and the OS. I can run Debian inside the ChromeOS Linux environment. That works, actually pretty well. But it is slow. Terrib

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	Real World Haskell: Code You Can Believe In by Bryan O'Sullivan (Goodreads Author), John Goerzen (Goodreads Author), Donald Bruce Stewart 3.93 avg rating — 923 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundations of Python Network Programming by John Goerzen (Goodreads Author), Martin Streicher (Editor) 3.72 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundations of Python Network Programming by Brandon Rhodes, John Goerzen (Goodreads Author) 3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Linux? Programming Bible 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundations of Python 3 Network Programming by Brandon Rhodes, John Goerzen (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed by Mario Camou, John Goerzen (Goodreads Author), Aaron Van Couwenberghe 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Debian GNU/Linux: A Guide to Installation and Usage [With CDROM] it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tabor Mennonite Church: Living Our Heritage: Celebrating 100 Years: 1908-2008 by Carol Duerksen, John Goerzen (Goodreads Author) (Archivist), Elaine Schroeder it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Professional Linux Administration by James Stanger, John Goerzen (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage by Ossama Othman, John Goerzen (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
― Victor Borge

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

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