Building a Not-so-portable ARM tablet with Khadas Edge 2

As the title says I'm documenting my entire Khadas Edge 2 journey. I'm a huge fan of tablets. I like the screen size they come with and the features.

But is it perfect to replace my day-to-day machine? Heck no. I run containers and kubernetes and what not. So the web vscode might be a really good option.

I got the khadas edge a year or so ago and I've not been able to figure out a good use case for it, I've always wondered what can I do with it, since it's supposedly a full blown Desktop PC.

With the 16GB ram and an octa-core processor, android is a good option for this but regardless it's an overkill. So I installed something called FydeOS.

FydeOS is an interesting project, it's a chromeos based project, which supports Android Apps as well as LXC containers. However, the default version of fydeOS that I have didn't seem to be stable. The Spotify app would crash the entire system. And notion felt a bit slow.

Moving on I saw that Khadas which comes with it's own Bootloader has something called as OOWOW, which is it's own bootloader and has support to install new OSes.

One of those is Android 13.

So I bit the bullet, installed and Android 13 and so far it's been flawless, I do intend to figure out how I can sort of hack around with Android.

Android is interesting, it's hackable and comes with ton of support for things like gamepad support, but it cannot run containers :( which is what I wanted to do. So now I'm thinking of what next is possible in this path, but I wanted a small tablet on my desk to use as a Notion/Gaming device.

Gaming on Android does work.

The experience is quite good too. No lags or stutters here, this device can handle Genshin Impact too, I wonder if I can install Wuthering Waves etc.

I also tried out Google voice and it does make the device handsfree, until it can't recognize my voice, the Khadas edge 2 has a Mems microphone too.

This is it for this post, I will probably switch to linux back and see if I can get this to work somehow with a touch-friendly linux distro.