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Maarten van Gompel (proycon)

Yesterday I received a second-hand laptop to run #postmarketos and #sxmo on; a Lenovo #thinkpad x13s with ARM CPU .

#alpinelinux #sway
20 November at 10:32 | Open on social.anaproy.nl
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ThinkPad-Museum

@proycon Nice machine, congratulations! What does the hardware support look like these days?

20 November at 11:05 | Open on podcasts.social
Maarten van Gompel (proycon)

@thinkpadmuseum So far most of what I tried works, a notable but important exception is suspend/hibernation. I also haven't tried to get the camera working yet. See wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Len

20 November at 11:07 | Open on social.anaproy.nl
Solicitor

@proycon #linux users love #thinkpads , they cannot get enough of it. Like #normies with their #mac addiction lol :blobcatcoffee:

20 November at 21:45 | Open on mastodon.social
M

@proycon

Let me know if you have any issues, mine has been running smooth.

20 November at 21:55 | Open on social.threata.gent
M

@proycon
There is one trick that I did find useful, pmbootstrap takes up more space than is allocated to the root partition. Adding another partition to the USB, and formatting and mounting that at either:

/home/user/.local/var/pmbootstrap

or

/var

and pointing pmbootstrap init to a
/var/pmbootstrap directory.

Makes the installation much smoother.

20 November at 22:00 | Open on social.threata.gent
Maarten van Gompel (proycon)

@m Oh thanks! I didn't encounter that issue though. Installation went pretty smooth.

20 November at 22:06 | Open on social.anaproy.nl
Craft

@proycon curious which processor is in this. Also, curious how your experience will be with sxmo on a laptop. The question was raised in this video on #postmarketos #SXMO performance: youtube.com/watch?v=z6Ff7L3Ea9

20 November at 22:34 | Open on mastodon.social
Clayton
Clayton

@crft @proycon btw I run pmOS+sway on my x13s (no sxmo), and I think it's pretty great. It even runs GNOME desktop pretty well (I have less experience using it regularly though)

20 November at 23:08 | Open on freeradical.zone
Maarten van Gompel (proycon)

@crft @craftyguy Interesting video! I hadn't seen that one yet.

I must say that after first trying sxmo yesterday, the next thing I did was port my regular laptop/desktop experience to the x13s, which is currently #riverwm . Now I can easily switch between both. I was pleasantly surprised with sxmo on the laptop, as I have a x13s with touchscreen and that's when it excels. Worked surprisingly well out-of-the-box.

20 November at 23:22 | Open on social.anaproy.nl
Craft

@proycon oh, I didn't even consider the benefit of the touchscreen in this situation. Hoping that #AlpineLinux moves #RiverWM into community. :)

20 November at 23:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Clayton

@proycon @crft someone should post a video showing what it's like to use sxmo on a touchscreen laptop 😁

20 November at 23:28 | Open on freeradical.zone
Maarten van Gompel (proycon)

@craftyguy @crft Hah, not a bad idea, perhaps I will give it a try some day. 😀

We're also playing with the idea of supporting #riverwm in #sxmo, I already have some patches in preparation building on earlier work by @stacyharper . Now I have this laptop I have more reason to finish it, but on a smaller mobile device I think sway remains the most sensible choice as it has good tabbed layouts.

20 November at 23:34 | Open on social.anaproy.nl
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