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).
Noah Bailey@Edent if it’s anything like the N100 gadget I got a year or so ago, it will take quite a bit of fiddling to get the touchscreen and pen input to work on the rotated screen. What worked the best was a couple udev rules, and some screwing around with grub. I’m fairly sure they simply loaded the bios splashscreen rotated 90° heh
Linux on the P8 Aliexpress Mini Laptop
I finally caved and bought one of the no-name 8" mini laptops from Aliexpress. I’ve had my eye on these for a long time. Really, since the days of my youth with the Sony Vaio P and other iconic UMPCs of the early 00’s. The game changer was the original GPD Pocket from a few years back. Now, there’s a cambrian explosion of cool tiny computers coming from China. This particular one was sold under the name “Topton”, but also appears under “Crelander”, “Aslay”, and a few other storefront names.