lots of trouble on Acer One 10 s1003

rubsiu

i know this forum is for asking question, so my question is at the end of this thread, but the main theme today is to give your Acer One 10 s1003 a new life by installing Linux system on it.

owning this tablet for more than a year i can prove that this machine is full of problems:
1. it is a 2018 device with 64bit architecture, but somehow the Acer thought its a good idea to put a 32bit UEFI in it, limiting the usable memory to 2.9gb on 32bit windows 
2. the SDIO wifi adapter is very unstable. connection drops every now and then, and the speed is unacceptably slow for a modern 802.11n device
3. the sound is barely hearable even in its max volume
4. the body is too heavy that it will flip on a light weight keyboard, so they intentionally put metal bars into the keyboard to balance it out, making this 10 inches tablet heavier than a 14 inches notebook and totally lost the portability a small tablet should have.

problem 1 and 2 can be solved by installing a 64bit Linux on it. personally i recommend Lubuntu 20.04 since it takes the least resources and most of the things works out of the box.
what works:
1. mmc card reader
2. sound
3. keyboard, touchpad and usb port
4. wifi will work after slight modification to system files, and the connection never drops anymore, speed is stable to stay max around 30Mbps
5. you get access to all the 4gb of memory now
6. the volume side button and windows menu side button
7. Fn + hotkeys

what doesn't work:
1. screen auto rotation, but you can set the rotation manually (auto rotation works in GNOME in ubuntu 20.04, but not the LXQT in lubuntu, however the accelerometer works in both case, so advanced user can make it work but adding complicated scripts)
2. touchscreen auto rotation (you can manually set the rotation for the screen, but not the touchscreen , so the movement of your finger doesn't match with the cursor once the screen is rotated)
3. camera (who cares?)
4. brightness hotkeys controls the contrast instead of backlight (can be fixed by slight modification to shortcuts)
5. computer may halt during booting up. A second attempt will mostly be successful.

things haven't tested:
1. bluetooth
2. HDMI

so considering the above i think its a good tradeoff to install linux. For me it changes my device from unusable to usable. 
please be warned that installing linux will most likely ruin your windows and your warranty, remember to back up personal data and do so at your own risk.

if anyone is interested i can make a tutorial on how to do the installation. 

ok here comes the question:
does anyone know is there any better fix than installing Linux on it ? thank you

newgameplus

I would like to see a linux installation tutorial on that, more specifically the wifi fixing. The best results so far were reached with PopOS and Fedora, but of course, no wifi. My wifi adapter, a TP-Link WN823(?)N also cannot establish a connection.