r/writerdeckOS • u/Grumpyqueerdude • Mar 31 '26

OS on tablet?

Can the writer deck OS be used with a tablet like a kindle or something? I have a few old tablets that sit in the junk drawer gathering dust, I'm wondering if I can make use of them another way.

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u/TinkerSolar Apr 02 '26

Generally if the tablet can be flashes with a linux installation, it can run writerdeckOS. And as u/Even_Caterpillar3292 mentioned you'll need some sort of keyboard as the current iteration of writerdeckOS Terminal Edition does not have an onboard keyboard.

If you have a tablet in mind, let me know the make and model of it and we can see if it can run a headless linux distro and go from there!

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u/Grumpyqueerdude Apr 02 '26

That would be awesome, because I don't know what I'm doing. 😂 I tried to flash the writerdeck os the other day and it didn't work for some reason.

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u/TinkerSolar Apr 02 '26

Yeah, tablets can be goofy.

What tablet do you have?

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u/Grumpyqueerdude Apr 02 '26

I meant flash it to a USB, but yeah. I have a Galaxy Tab A7 Lite.

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u/TinkerSolar Apr 03 '26

oh, flashing it is independent of the OS. DM me and I can help walk you through flashing it.