If you want to write drivers you’ll need some really good documentation on how to interact with the device.

Then when you have that ask ChatGPT how to write a driver, it’ll most likely not do the best job on writing it in Rush so for a sample code asking for C code will give better result.

Nobody is saying it’s not a computer, but the tooling, reliability and services make it more than just a computer.

I’ve been using Thunderbird as my daily driver for a while now.

• Great automation and filtering. -10$/year add-on for a complete MS suite interop for work.
• Customized the theming.
• Tracker blocking.
• Calendars
• First class Linux support

It’s just as good as every other email client but without them reading it. :)

There are themes for the colorless. I personally help with a donation every now and then.

Disregard that, I see that the iPad 2 and iPad mini are not eligible since the min iOS version is 11. All devices since 2012 work though, hope that helps someone else. Sorry.

See here for a table https://iosref.com/ios

Getting a Linux mobile OS on it would probably have a lot of issues, Ubuntu touch for example just supports the most popular phones as of now.

However it would work in theory you’d have to do some really weird low level gymnastics and one shot the execution to run Linux natively.

Alternatively you could use a VM to run Linux and try to work around that.

https://ipadlinux.org/

deleted by creator