Most of my tablets run Android and seem locked down and unable to run some alternative Linux desktop environment. These are mostly slower arm based machines that I think would be difficult to load a clean Linux onto them. I'd love to be wrong because the versions of Android are becoming quite slow on these devices.
I did pick up an inexpensive Intel bay trail tablet a couple years back that I now run Void Linux on. I don't run any desktop environment on it. I don't even have Xorg (or Wayland) installed! I mostly use it as an always on "server" and ssh into it daily. The only problem is that it seems like it's not possible to turn the backlight off so eventually that will burn out I guess (I think lifetime is 100 000 hours). I did manage to set the brightness to 0 but for some reason the backlight will not turn off.
I did pick up an inexpensive Intel bay trail tablet a couple years back that I now run Void Linux on. I don't run any desktop environment on it. I don't even have Xorg (or Wayland) installed! I mostly use it as an always on "server" and ssh into it daily. The only problem is that it seems like it's not possible to turn the backlight off so eventually that will burn out I guess (I think lifetime is 100 000 hours). I did manage to set the brightness to 0 but for some reason the backlight will not turn off.