Terence EdenNew laptop day! Go on, Fedifriends, which #Linux distro should I put on it?
I usually use Pop / Ubuntu / Debian - but happy to try anything modern and supported.
(Chuwi Minibook X N150 if it makes a difference.)
Gonna give Windows 11 a spin first. Mostly because a separate gadget has a firmware update which is packaged as an .exe.
Haven't connected it to the Internet get, but so far Windows is just as I remembered it from a couple of years ago. Unexciting.
Linux Mint Debian Edition is go!
Automatic screen rotation works once booted (grub and LUKS in portrait mode). Touchscreen works as does WiFi. Sound works, as do the function keys.
Haven't tested anything else yet.
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OK Linux Mint is a no-go. Touchscreen doesn't work properly with Wayland.
https://github.com/linuxmint/wayland/issues/190
Time to try a new distro!
This mini laptop literally fits in my jeans' pocket. Just about 😄
Trackpad is a bit crap, but other than that it is a cute and useful device.
Man, the #NixOS people really love editing their text files, huh?
I've managed to get fractional scaling (by adding to a text file) and screen rotation (by adding weird magic to a text file).
Like, you know GUIs exist, right? You can have checkboxes, toggles, and drop down lists. Then save that to whatever text serialisation you'd like.
This reminds me of playing with Linux in the 1990s (derogatory).
Brandon Bennett@Edent GUIs aren’t declarative and repeatable. I can get a new laptop and have everything done with one command vs clicking though guis.
@Edent although fractions scaling isn’t the default in GNOME (what you get when you install GNOME on nix) but should be the default in the next release which will allow you to select it in a GUI.
I assume this is the same for Arch which strives to not provided non-default configs for packages.