Android

[cuddy29772]

I’m a (relative) newcomer to Ubuntu.

And thinking of getting a cheap netbook to use as a second computer: and portable one.

I’m thinking this one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laptop-Netbook-Android-Latest-Software-Black/dp/B0168I7XBG/ref=cm_cd_al_qh_dp_t

Would be an ideal one.

However, I’d rather not have Android on the blessed thing.

I’d rather install a lightweight version of Ubuntu on it.

Would I have to use one of The Ubuntu installers on the Google Play store? If so, which one? (I’d need something fairly user friendly.)

Or could I use the old trick of rebooting, hitting F8/F12, and then installing from a USB stick

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

(I’ve ASKED on the Amazon page: but still not received much of a helpful answer.)

[grahammechanical]

What is the hardware specification of that machine? The CPU, video adapter, memory, storage? That sort of thing.

As far as I know, Android devices use an ARM designed CPU. Standard Ubuntu does not work on ARM CPUs but on x86 CPUs made by Intel or AMD. And then there will be the issue of the video drivers. They would be special to Android. I doubt very much if there are any Linux drivers for that video adapter whatever make it is.

As for any Linux installer in the Google play store my advice would be to contact the developers of these apps. Here is one such app but I notice that although it was last updated February 2015 it only supports Ubuntu 13.04 & 13.10 which are both long out of support life.

Here is another example

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.linuxdeploy&hl=en_GB

Regards

[coldraven]

I picked up a mint condition Toshiba NB100 netbook for £30. I put in a SSD for £50 and it runs Xubuntu very nicely.
Look around for these old XP gadgets, people are throwing them away but with Linux there is still life in them.