#Fedora has a mobile spin for running #Linux on tablets such as Lenovo Yoga and Microsoft Surface with KDE Plasma Mobile!

Scott Williams 🐧

Fedora KDE Plasma Mobile Spin

Built on the foundations of KDE Plasma Desktop, the Fedora KDE Plasma Mobile Spin brings its flexibility to a mobile form factor. Although originally geared towards phones, the touch friendly interface works very well on tablets and 2-in-1 laptops.

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Paul Wouters

@vwbusguy does it support virtual keyboards for whole disk encryption passwords yet? Yes I had an interesting experience last time

Scott Williams 🐧

@letoams Yeah, the TL;DR is it *might* be possible use use a NitroKey or YubiKey instead of password for LUKS, but I don't know of any plymouth compatible framebuffer based virtual keyboard option. It might exist - I just don't know about it if it does.

Full disk encryption on a tablet device

I’m trying to setup fedora 40 KDE spin on a Dell 7210 tablet. Coming from the Lenovo world, I was quite surprised that there is no hardware based disc encryption for this device. So I decided to run a standard setup with LUKS encryption. That worked fine, but I can’t unlock LUKS without a keyboard …

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Paul Wouters

@vwbusguy that sounds as tricky and also needs a usb port. I have some old tablet PC. It does have a usb so I didn’t get stuck

Scott Williams 🐧

@letoams I'm wondering if it might make more sense if we had some kind of Kinoite Mobile option where the signed image itself is unencrypted, but the RW volumes can somehow get unencrypted later on in the process when there's a GUI server available, sort of like how Android does this.

Scott Williams 🐧

@letoams And apparently it's possible to do this with Mobian??

Plasma Mobile on Librem 5

I tried installing Plasma Mobile with instructions on Install Plasma Mobile link. But it did not work. Has anybody tried installing Plasma Mobile on Librem 5? Was the attempt successful?

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Scott Williams 🐧

@letoams And postmarket's Plasma presents a virtual keyboard for decryption:

Install And Configure PostmarketOS With Plasma Mobile On The PinePhone

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So, it seems theoretically possible.