Linux Tablet?

@Axios and @MetaNorm Thank you both for your replies. I had great hopes for Fedora after reading a tutorial on how to put it on a 10" Linx tablet. I got myself a Linx 12x64 to try out but Fedora will not see the hard drive for some reason. The Linx tablets are very cheap and so the quality of the hardware is pretty poor too, there seems to be a history of driver updates breaking various functions. On Linux the WiFi needs tweaking to make it work although I have not had any success here. Solus installed and ran on it quite well but with no battery status indication and no WiFi it was a bit of a deal breaker. Maybe more work required here.
The Starlabs tablet certainly offers plenty of choice, I will be taking a better look at what they have to offer later. I was hoping to get something second hand that I could fiddle with, which is always fun. This is mostly going to be for reading books at night and as a lightweight computer to travel with so not really looking for a powerful machine because I need long battery life.

WetGeek I have been doing similar for a few years on an unlocked Kindle Fire running DivestOS which gets the job done as far as book reading and light browsing goes but it lacks most of the abilities that a PC can offer. I would also like to be able to boot from a USB stick so that I can use different OSs and utilities and ideally have Wine installed. Being able to use desktop sites in my browser and not some kind of mobile optimised thing is high on my wish list too.
Figured it was time to move on from Android.

Axios I remember you asking questions about setting up the Asus a while back. What flavour of Fedora did you end up using?
I have been looking at Manjaro Plasma and Solus Plasma (obviously) as not limited to 32bit boot but have noticed that both did not have out of the box Virtual Keyboard support for tablets. Even the Virtual Keyboard button on the login screen does nothing apart from moving up the password dialogue box to make way for the keyboard that does not appear.
I wonder what your mileage has been here, or maybe your choice has been to keep the optional keyboards connected.
I have found fixes for the virtual keyboard issue but I would still be interested to hear about your own experiences.
At present WiFi is still being accessed from a USB adaptor. That is going to be my next project.

Axios Unfortunately for me I could not get the battery status or WiFi to work with Solus, pretty much two essentials for a tablet.
Everything on Manjaro worked with minimal fuss except for the WiFi so that is where I will be staying if I can get the WiFi to work. At the moment I am using a USB adaptor for wireless but that means I have no spare ports for external storage.
In fairness the built-in wireless adaptor is a Broadcom job that is very picky about what driver it uses. Numerous Windows installations messed up the WiFi when the OS updated the stock drivers. The original manufacturer no longer has a web presence so I might have to be happy with what I have got.

inkbug I was initially quite tempted by MS Surface tablets but discarded them due to how difficult it seemed to get them working on Linux and strangely on Windows too.
I probably need to look closer at computer companies that also offer Linux installed OSs and drivers.
Part of my idea for using Linux is to be able to stay on a stable platform that gets updated regularly and keeps my hardware viable. Perhaps too much to ask for.

Axios Thanks for your suggestion.
After I installed it, I ran the suggested command. Some details flashed up on the screen too fast to read and then it just jumped down a line waiting for the next command without displaying any information.
Maybe I should try installing the GitHub drivers again, do a reboot and scan again.

Axios I installed the GitHub driver and rebooted. Can see networks but security password will not accept. When I shut down the tablet it hung. I will take a more detailed look at that later.
Also took another try with sudo lshw -C network and now have an output. I will post that up later as I don't have access to my computer right now.

Axios Somewhat later...
Tried tablet again, startup and shutdown are both fine. Results of sudo lshw -C network with GitHub drivers installed.
*-interface:0
description: Wireless interface
product: 43455
vendor: Broadcom
physical id: 1
bus info: mmc@2:0001:1
logical name: mmc2:0001:1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 36:00:1f:1a:11:99
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmfmac driverversion=7.45.234 firmware=01-996384e2 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
Still can't connect because it will not take my password, all very frustrating.

Axios nmcli returned everything enabled except WWAN-LAN missing.
rfkill list returned nothing blocked.