Ubuntu for Desktop Spotted Running on NVIDIA Shield Tablet

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The NVIDIA Shield Tablet is a gaming device built by Nvidia that has very specific user niche, but a user of this tablet managed to run Ubuntu on it; not the mobile version, but the desktop one.

When people port Ubuntu to mobile devices, they usually focus on using the mobile version of Ubuntu. We’ve seen it land on various Samsung devices and a couple of tablets, but never on an NVIDIA Shield Tablet. Even if it sounds strange to install a regular Ubuntu distro on a tablet,… (read more)