Will Graphene OS, Lineage OS, or some other operating system install on a Lenovo Tablet?
Edit: Its a Lenovo P11 Tab Pro Gen 2
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Lenovo tablets aren’t alternate OS friendly.
Depending on the tablet, you might not be able to unlock the bootloader. I have a Chinese Lenovo model Y770 that’s not unlockable.
You can always remove your google account from the tablet and install Aurora Store and f-droid to keep google from tracking what you’re using. Every step in the right direction is a step away from google.
Using Open Street Maps, Mull, Brave, librewolf, various proton apps or whatever you prefer will let you get away from the built in google stuff.
Thanks! However I thought it was advised to stay away from Aurora away because of it uses a less strong worthy app repository, in that malicious actors could upload stuff.
It uses google play. Not sure if that should be concidered a reliable source of apps, but yeah…
GrapheneOS will only run on Pixel devices for now (including the Pixel tablet), see https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
LineageOS has two Lenovo devices listed, your (and my) tablet are not on that list, see https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#lenovo
Depending on the model you might find some custom built ROM on e.g. XDADevelopers, but be careful not to brick your device.
And lastly you could self compile
well if they find the drivers, and make the necessary changes from another tablet or phone that’s similar and suported, yeah
Are there guides or documentation for how to do this for me or future devs that are interested?
what I know though is that the device manufacturers are obligated by license to give you the kernel source code for the device on request, because linux is gpl.
but they are not obligated to provide you hardware drivers and device trees that are not included in the kernel. you may still ask in case they care, but it’s probably rare they provide that. sometimes it’s hard even to get their kernel source code.
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