Openstip is a community effort to complete support for the stip 2 in 1 (stip laptop or tablet) on linux. So far, there is nothing limiting basic usage.

• Linux mint (cinnamon):
• Fedora (gnome): sound works flawlessly
• Manjaro (KDE):

• No camera support: both the front and back cameras are not recognized at all, due to the /dev/video0 file not existing.
• Broken audio: most of the time, there is no audio, or it sounds very broken. Headphones and earphones work fine

• The only stip device we have has a broken screen, so touch capablity has not been tested.
• The boot menu key is unknown (for all we know, it might not even have one). You have to put your usb at the top in the boot settings or choose UEFI booting in the recovery screen to get to boot off of usb.
• Home key has not been tested, due to the broken screen.
• Sim card functionality has not been tested (and probably doesn't work.

Get a usb stick (or a "flash"), and download the tool necessary to make your usb bootable. This tutorial uses ventoy as its the easiest, allows multiple iso files on the same usb stick, and you can even keep using the usb as normal after it is bootable. Once you download ventoy, download your linux distro of choice. Once you download the iso file, make your usb bootable by opening ventoy (in the ventoy folder you extracted from the zip file, Ventoy2Disk.exe for windows, ), clicking on your device in the list and installing ventoy on it. Now all you need to do is copy the linux iso file to the usb like any other file.

Once your usb is ready, turn off the stip, and put the usb in. Then, turn the stip back on while holding the escape key. It should put you in the bios, then go to the save and exit tab, and select your usb from the boot list. It should appear by its name (eg. sandisk usb will appear as sandisk). You should be dropped off in a screen that has the ventoy banner on it, and a list. Select your iso (should be first one, so just click enter) and tap enter again. If any confirmation screens come, just tap enter. You can now start installing your linux distro.

The above is not meant to be a comprehensive guide. Consider reading a typical beginner's guide to installing operating systems if these instructions are too unclear

• The stip is x86-64, not arm64 like a lot of windows tablets. Be thankful.
• Linux shows no indication of switching to "tablet mode" when you remove the keyboard. This is completely normal, linux doesn't bloat itself with things like tablet mode which are useless for most users. If you plan to use it as a tablet, use gnome as your desktop environment.
• The main disk that linux installs itself to is not sda1, its mmblkp1. As such, it might appear as an "SD Card Reader" in gnome disks or other disk management. The normal microsd card reader works as intended.

You can contribute to openstip by offering to test your devices, and creating github issues whenever you encounter problems.