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I haven’t had a great time with Linux on a tablet without a keyboard and mouse but PostmarketOS is 100% usable IMO. Even the on screen keyboard on the login screen works.
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x86, ARM, are intended to be multipurpose, right? So why tf does the OS running on it need multiple layers of abstraction and have the right drivers to support common features? Wouldn’t it be possible to standardize the interfaces for audio, hw video acceleration, etc. so that you just need one audio driver for all x86 CPUs, another for ARM and be done?
The CPU might be the same, but the audio chip, trackpad, etc. might be different and require a new driver.
Yeah, but why isn’t that handled in hardware or microcode?
I’m not sure how you’d handle hardware in hardware.
Microcode is usually only run on the CPU, so in that case the implementation would be called “drivers”. If you ran it on the device it would be called “firmware” and the OS still has to know how it address its interfaces somehow, and implementation is again called a “driver”.
Very cool, thanks. How did you pair the pen?
I don’t think they need pairing. It just worked for me. It’s a generic one off amazon. The Microsoft one I got with the tablet broke after a month and the replacement one also broke after a month. I’m still kind of mad about it like 4 year later.
So…you just took it out of the box and it paired automatically? What’s to stop it from pairing to the wrong device?
I think the tablet was just using it as a normal touchscreen. Therefore nothing to pair.
The app launcher UI is hilarious, the name is too long so it adds 3 more periods to it and cuts off even more of the name.
How’s the battery life compared to Windows?
So far it seems really good. I haven’t tested it to much though.
So, h264 video playback at 1080px works flawlessly, and flac audio. What about
- other codecs
- hardware accel, e.g. for h265?
