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  • ReakDuck@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Apparently, the mods at Linuxsucks are really sensitive?
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    6 days ago

    Yeah… I am in my Arch comfort zone, till I was forced to move on as the newest kernels of Arch triggered kernel Panics at my Starlite V device. Even the LTS version (and for some weird reason the rt kernel was the only one working without panics).

    So someone said “Use NixOS, its great”… it felt cool at beginning, but sucked very soon as everything should be written into stone if you want changes on your system, and then reboot, because the switch command didn’t really trigger enough changes. Netbeans was without Maven till I rebooted. I thought I sucked at adding it properly. Frustrating it was.

    Then I tried MX Linux, just to realize that Debian has Ancient packages with many many bugs, like Okular having a broken Pinch-Zoom which is fixed after 23.31 or smth. Debian had version 22 of Okular. And I disliked that MX Linux used Plasma 5…

    Another one recommends Void Linux, Gentoo, KDE Neon, OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Holy fuck pls filter it by Systemd only Operating Systems. (But still cool having lots od Linux users in my university group)

    I finally decided to Install Kubuntu and actually… it feels like it will last forever (till a new Ubuntu Update comes in and destroys itself by its own Updating system. It never worked for me)

  • ReakDuck@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Starlabs; good support long term?
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    9 days ago

    I am using it daily… Its kinda hard to use tbh… except till you fixed it.

    First, disable the Lid Opening in the BIOS. The keyboard case sucks for this task, making it constantly wake up when the lid is closed, as its easily missing the Magnet spot while transporting.

    (Dont worry, it still can go to sleep when closing the lid when diabling the BIOS setting, but now you need to press the button for 2-3 seconds to wake up, thats one fix to make it usable)

    The Keyboard will be pressed when you close the lid. Meaning that it will constantly wake up when you transport it as everything presses against the tablet, triggering some keys. So you need to create a systemd service that disables the keyboard close before suspend.target… yes, the keyboard wakeup will re-enable itself for some reason, so its better to have a service triggering it everytime you go to suspend.

    Suspending is slow af, its a bug with the SD-Card reader, so you need to disable that too on boot. I just put it in the same systemd service.

    Don’t buy the original Pen if you want to write. It has latency and sucks with the feeling. Buy a Penoval Pen or any other Pen. They will have USb-C charging and way less latency. The Tablet is using MPP I think as tech but I think some newer things also work.

    Buy a good 12.9 inch Apple Paperlike or any other Matt screen protector. Havent tried this one yet but I will try it in a few days. (i accidentally bought an universal Matt Screen protector which was like 10% Matt from Brotec, while the same Brotec Matt protector for my tiny chromebook was like 100% Matt and felt like real paper. Matt is not always matt. I guess the Companies adjust their Levels to the use case of the device…)

    Oh… btw. I used Arch Linux and a Forum talked about the issue, that all kernels are giving a kernel Panic at some point except linux-rt. This corrupted my system files after 2 Months of usage, when I awas using Godot… only the Linux-rt kernel was working perfectly they said in the forum. So don’t use Arch Linux. Use anything else. I couldn’t start X11 anymore and reinstalling all corrupt packages didn"t help. I started to use NixOs and kinda hate it, but I want to learn it for fun. It works but use smth like Kubuntu or Linux Mint. Idk.

    Rotation doesn’t work yet on Linux… afaik. Maybe it does but I can’t manage to fix that.

    After fullfilling all these Criteria, I am very very happy with this device. It was hard at the beginning and very stressfull, but now I start to love it somehow.

    If someone wants me, to create a Repo with all my fixes and suggestions. Buy me a coffee and I do it. I don’t have much time as a student. But you could do it yourself with researching, so why should I waste my time.

  • ReakDuck@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•anyone who uses Linux on apple silicon or another arm device
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    2 months ago

    I used my Chromebook Duet 3 from Lenovo which has a Snapdragon ARM chip.

    I installed a custom compiled Kernel with some weird distro iso maker from a dude for such devices. It adds a few drivers to make various things work.

    Bluetooth, Audio, Usi pen, Touchscreen worked. It was nice.

    The USI pen and touchscreen glitches sometimes out, which forces me to suspend this convertable for a second and wake it up to fix the issue.

    I couldn’t really install lunarvim or some other development tools because some things just are not compileable/installable. I didnt bither eith waydroid as It was too complex for me to really grasp how to install the header files and so on.

    I did use KDE (5.25 I think), with Wayland and it was good actually. Xournalpp for writing and logseq for storing knowledge in patterns, which sometims had buggy graphics on Wayland for some reason.

    Things like RNote couldn’t work because the Mesa drivers weren’t really installed or smth and kernel header files were needed here too I think.

    Firefox with touch on wayland also was a nice experience that worked pretty great (but needs environment value to be set for Wayland).

    I accepted that I will get a new device after 2 Years of using that tablet and replacing paper on school. Did work great for me. I prefer Penoval Pens. They have them for all devices. Usi and MPP and much more.

    So I got the Starlite 5 (from starlabs.systems) which has a worse Battery lifetime than expected (I think but not stress tested. OS shows 3 to 6 hours sometimes but advertised was 14h) but at least I can even run some small Steam games on that n200 intel chip and install all Applications I want because its AMD64 Architecture cpu. It kinda overheats at the top right corner.

    Note that both products are convertables, or rather Tablets with a detachable keyboard.

    So at the end. I can use this Chromebook convertable for some narrow things but not for everything, like a Computer should be able to. But maybe all the skills you need are capable to be run on a slow Snapdragon with aarch64 Architecture. Unsure how Apple M1 is there compared to that.

  • ReakDuck@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•The least happy computer users: Those running Arch Linux & Firefox
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    3 months ago

    Bro, I rage at Ubuntu. Literally. Kinda unhappy when at work and using my Kubuntu.

    (But unhappiest with Windows)

    At home, 4 Devices use Arch Linux and I am the happiest person on earth with them. I love knowing how I set them up and how to fix something when broken.

    I reinstalled Windoes 4 times because it somehow broke, while I still kept my Arch Linux through over 4 years.

    (Generally, I dont tinker much with Arch Linux and generally was a Person who spent a lot of time with a Girlfriend. I read that wife, kids and etc was a point. Thus, I am mentioning how satisfied I am not only with my OS but life too. I also love my work, I just ignore that Ubuntu breaks sometimes. But generally, I wished I would be hsing Arch on my work)