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Old 01-12-2026, 06:38 PM   #2
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You want a piece of eReader hardware to run a regular Linux distro that you can code on and play games on?

That's not going to happen unless the games you are talking about are text-based Tic-Tac-Toe and the coding you intend to do is programming something to print out "Hello World!" and exit.

It sounds like your actual desire is to run a Linux system without others being able to find out you are running a Linux system? What I would do is load up "MX Linux" on a thumbdrive and boot a regular household computer off that thumbdrive to do your stuff. When you're done, reboot the computer off it's regular HDD/SSD and remove the thumbdrive. You will need a USB-3 thumbdrive and a USB-3 port (and obviously, a computer that is capable of booting off a thumbdrive - most recent ones are).

I recommend MX Linux for this task not only because it is full featured, but because it has phenomenal "boot from thumbdrive" capabilities that other distros lack. "AntiX Linux" is an alternate choice to MX Linux if you need a distro that is lighter weight (both MX and AntiX share the same boot from thumbdrive capabilities).
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