Back when I was still working in a hospital, I was given an iPad Air 4 as part of a package. In hospitals these days, even in third world countries like mine, we use electronic patient records instead of the physical patient charts we see in Grey’s Anatomy or House on TV. It’s been collecting dust since I’ve quit hospital work, and I’ve been oblivious to the fact that if jailbroken, this thing could sideload and run other operating systems in a VM. Being someone who isn’t much of an iOS/iPadOS fan, this was music to my ears.
I mean, with 4gb or RAM, a more than decent battery life, a keyboard and a Bluetooth mouse, this thing feels better than any of those little netbooks I’ve ever tried using back in the day. I agree with the folks at ipadlinux.org/ that these tablets are too powerful to ignore, and I hope that, sooner rather than later, we’d be able to wipe iPadOS and install Linux conveniently. For now, I’m aware of the iSH app that runs Alpine Linux, but as for people like me who are very GUI-reliant, we’ll just have to wait.
As a newbie, I’m trying to dig deeper into this rabbit hole, but all I can find are the VM via sideloading tutorials, iSH, and running an old iPad with a Raspberry Pi or any of it’s alternatives. I thought of trying to pick your brains here before I maybe sell this iPad to some young parent trying to find a device to raise their screaming toddler for them 
Cheers btw! Having a nice smoky whisky while typing this out 
Edit: Damn I just reread my post and I kinda sounded like an Apple shill 
I swear guys, I only like the hardware!