Yeah, I do love playing with stuff like this! I’ve had it since August and have tried a bunch of different OSs, but in the end the other week I put 32bit Windows10 on it because it has all the drivers it needs built in. This latest installation has not been online at all and I see little point in doing so. I got it just to play with Sunvox and I’ve found that going online with it and installing antivirus ware and other stuff is just slows it down more. The other Windows OSs I tried were XP and 7. They worked well when it came to calibrating the touchscreen, but were a major pain finding and installing the correct drivers. I also tried a number of different Linux OSs - Puppy, Xubuntu, Mint, DSL and a load of others I can’t remember off the top of my head. They all worked quicker/smoother than the Windows OSs and didn’t need drivers installing, but all had issues with calibrating the touchscreen satisfactorily and some had glitchy audio issues that I didn’t spend long investigating.
I like using Sunvox on devices that have built-in qwerty keyboards, because Sunvox lets you remap 3 octaves of the piano/keyboard keys to whatever keys on the qwerty keyboard you like, plus any other functions you want to map. So basically you can kind of play this Toughbook with the built-in keyboard (if you’re not too fussy about latency…).
