ellyI'm going to get thrown into a endless pit for this, but:
Please, please stop using LTS distributions (such as Debian, Mint, Ubuntu) with hardware that's under active development.
Just because system is "just" x86, doesn't mean it has the same support as standard laptops produced by Dell, HP, Lenovo and so on.
99% of people asking us for help installs Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 and expects everything to work correctly OOTB.
There's a very good reason why we recommend rolling release distributions (Arch, Fedora, OpenSUSE) for people who want their hardware to work correctly.
If you want to run LTS distribution, we do provide kernel packages, backported patches and firmware. But some of those patches require changes in userspace, therefore you should expect that featureset on LTS distributions won't be the same as on rolling-release.
Another big reason is Wayland and PipeWire. People who still don't want to switch to Wayland complain about issues with framebuffer (on some models), incomplete touchscreen support and broken autorotation.
All of this is working in Wayland OOTB, and we won't spend our time trying to make it work under Xorg.
Wayland also has lower overhead, which is desirable on underpowered machines (like most Chromeboooks).
PulseAudio generally "works", but you really want to use PipeWire if you want your speakers and/or headphone jack switching to work correctly.
At the moment we support 254 boards (machines) and we're planning to add even more. We really don't have time to backport our patches, and of course - nobody's paying us for the work we do.
Every contributor has their own personal life and full-time job/university on top of working on the project. I think what we've achieved within the past year is already impressive, and you can find all of our patches in upstream. This is the way to go, and we're not planning on stopping there :)
#coreboot #chrultrabook #linux
Please, please stop using LTS distributions (such as Debian, Mint, Ubuntu) with hardware that's under active development.
Just because system is "just" x86, doesn't mean it has the same support as standard laptops produced by Dell, HP, Lenovo and so on.
99% of people asking us for help installs Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 and expects everything to work correctly OOTB.
There's a very good reason why we recommend rolling release distributions (Arch, Fedora, OpenSUSE) for people who want their hardware to work correctly.
If you want to run LTS distribution, we do provide kernel packages, backported patches and firmware. But some of those patches require changes in userspace, therefore you should expect that featureset on LTS distributions won't be the same as on rolling-release.
Another big reason is Wayland and PipeWire. People who still don't want to switch to Wayland complain about issues with framebuffer (on some models), incomplete touchscreen support and broken autorotation.
All of this is working in Wayland OOTB, and we won't spend our time trying to make it work under Xorg.
Wayland also has lower overhead, which is desirable on underpowered machines (like most Chromeboooks).
PulseAudio generally "works", but you really want to use PipeWire if you want your speakers and/or headphone jack switching to work correctly.
At the moment we support 254 boards (machines) and we're planning to add even more. We really don't have time to backport our patches, and of course - nobody's paying us for the work we do.
Every contributor has their own personal life and full-time job/university on top of working on the project. I think what we've achieved within the past year is already impressive, and you can find all of our patches in upstream. This is the way to go, and we're not planning on stopping there :)
#coreboot #chrultrabook #linux
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