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Off topic but any suggestions for cool things to do with an HP Steam 7? I bought one when they were on a really cheap sale because I'm too much of a gadget fiend to pass up a half decent tablet for £50 :) but I've not used it for anything at all...

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Looks like Ubuntu 16.04 runs fine on it [1], you could turn it into a small personal server, put GitLab on it, whatever :-) I have a Raspberry Pi 3 with Ubuntu MATE sitting around and am likewise looking to put it to good use.

[1] http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Windows/Linux-on-the-HP-Stream-...

Nice! I will give this a go for sure. Thanks :)

I don't know that it counts as "cool", but with msys2 (which gives you cygwin + pacman) it's easier to get a POSIX userland running on one of these than an Android tablet. With a bluetooth keyboard it's quite a reasonable little *ix machine.

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