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).

@Edent LOL. I had exactly the same reaction, and probably that was the reason why I gave up on nix.

But GUI comes with its own challenges. It takes time to get right, choose a toolkit, provide accessibility, all the dropdowns, quite dynamic settings, handle file read/writes, serialization, handle crashes. List probably goes on.

I guess for nix use-case, text is just the fastest UI.