My mind is blown. When I first got this HP hybrid tablet, one of the first things I tried was installing OpenBSD. However, the installer (7.8 amd64) would never boot all the way, rebooting the machine around the time it was detecting the CPU cores. I tried a lot of different Linux distros and other OSes, and eventually settled on Fedora KDE as it had complete support for the device, including the touch screen and digitizer pen, the detachable keyboard and its battery, and so on.

Well today, in a fit of boredom, I flashed a USB drive with the OpenBSD installer and booted it on the tablet, and inexplicably it finished booting and got me to the installer prompt! Of course I immediately blew away the Fedora installation and installed and configured OpenBSD to my usual desktop, Xfce. I'm typing this now on the tablet, everything is working except it doesn't detect the secondary battery or the digitizer pen. I can live without the keyboard's battery gauge as it is always secondary to the tablet's battery anyway, and I never use the pen so that's no loss. No Bluetooth either but that's a given with OpenBSD on any hardware.

Needless to say I am thrilled and amused, and I'm going to keep OpenBSD on this thing out of pure spite.

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