Debian 13.6 running in 10.1-inch mini laptop from China.
Hello,
I'd like to share my positive review of installing Debian 13.6 XFCE in a 10.1-inch chinese laptop from Aliexpress.
First of all, I bought it because I needed an ultra portable laptop to carry it easily in my backpack.
By "ultra portable," I mean lighter and smaller than MacBook Air 13. I attached a picture of them side to side.
This laptop is not for heavyweight work. It is a dual core celeron N4000 (full specs bellow).
I am using it mainly to do lightweight work (writing documents, web surfing, as well as some programming stuff in Visual Studio Code).
The laptop came with Windows 11 pré-installed, I wiped it out and installed Debian 13.6 XFCE using the live image.
The only drawback is that you have to rotate the display to "right" in XFCE Display Configuration before installation.
After installing it, I also had to change lightdm configuration to rotate the display to "right" to show the logging screen correctly.
Besides that, everything worked out of box - even the wireless adapter.
Hardware specs:
Processor: Intel Celeron N4000
RAM: 8 GB
Storage: 128 GB SSD SATA 2242 (model Wdxsky W31-128G ATA)
Wireless adapter: Realtek RTL8821CE
Resolution: 1280x800
Best regards