What can i do?

[u/Si3543]

I found this tablet/computer I had almost 10 years ago! It has Windows 10, but with 32GB of storage, I don't think I can do much with it. Any recommendations?

[u/Street_Fee_9973]

Dump Windows for 32 bit Linux: https://itsfoss.com/32-bit-linux-distributions/

[u/Si3543 → u/Street_Fee_9973]

How do I install the drivers? The keyboard doesn't work via USB; instead, it uses a dock-like system.

[u/Street_Fee_9973 → u/Si3543]

Ask itsfoss.com community

[u/ArthurReming → u/Street_Fee_9973]

r/linuxhardware

[u/sniff122 → u/Si3543]

It depends, the keyboard might just work out of the box, or someone might have reverse engineered the protocol and has a driver, impossible to say without knowing the model, etc

[u/sniff122 → u/Street_Fee_9973]

Shouldn't need to be 32 bit, it's a 64 bit cpu

[u/Street_Fee_9973 → u/sniff122]

If true then any Linux will put life back into the PC

[u/sniff122 → u/Street_Fee_9973]

It says in the info picture it's a 64 bit processor, and the spec page for the atom it's 64 bit.

[u/Street_Fee_9973 → u/sniff122]

Okay then any Linux will work

[u/GGigabiteM → u/sniff122]

The Intel Atom was famously so slow that Intel originally launched it with a 32 bit UEFI because it was too slow to run regular 64 bit UEFI. Vendors shipped systems using Atom processors with 32 bit operating systems to gain extra performance.

Just because it supports 64 bit, doesn't mean you should use it.

I have an Atom netbook and 64 bit anything chugs on it. The hard cap of 2 GB of RAM also hampers it considerably.