Quack Doc

correct on both accounts.

I actually recommend using Niri lately. It’s not super great, but it does support multi-touch, which is major.

I hope cosmic supports it at some point because cosmic actually supports operating in kiosk mode, and also uses smithay.

There are good amount of applications that are only armed. Google actually might be getting an open source arm to x86 emulator/native bridge.

If they do, then waydroid can include translation directly, but as it stands, there are no open source translators, so it’s not something waydroid can ship.

If they get dinit i’ll probably try it

Now THIS is a duct tape solution!

I really needed to run a compositor from an arch chroot and systemd’s udev is straight up broken in chroot, so I used libudev-zero and made sure that every time systemd updated I would delete the libudev .so file and plunk libudev-zero ontop of it, no i’ve moved on to greener pastures (Artix) but hey, it did work.

I have been looking a LONG time for a consistently stable distro, ill let you know when I find one in approx 20 years

at least if the memes were good. It’s just bad man this bad man that or dementia man dementia man that.

That’s actually horrid. My router is android only and I thought that was bad.

This would be a really nice change

Chromium browsers have a lot of issues, and so does firefox, but ram usage is not one of chromes weaknesses, Chromium regularly preforms better for me then firefox does under low ram scenarios, Both in terms of chrome being responsive, and in terms of chrome not crippling everything else around it.

I will never not be upset at people who don’t realize how ram works

I make my scripts with modern shells in mind since they let you use arrays for arguments which is vastly superior to doing \ for continuing the script line, I give the example here https://docs.blissos.org/installation/install-in-a-virtual-machine/advanced-qemu-config/#flexible-bash-scripting

Im very happy with how responsive its being in general. Discover and gnome’s store are actually really sluggish to use when scrolling through in low end hardware and this app is smooth as silk.

even Fdroid stores on my phone are slower.

First impressions is I’m shocked by just how fast it is, Aside from the first boot which for some reason doesn’t propagate apps and needs a reboot, it’s extremely fast, Gnome software and Discover aren’t even within the same league of responsiveness and speed. I didn’t showcase Discover since I don’t know where the cache files are to delete them.

Touchscreen for sure I wish was handled better. you can see I accidentally clicked an app in the last video instead of scrolling, but thats something that I assume will be fixed with time.

Not sure how long this will last, but here are some videos I took of it, try not to mind the crunch on the last one, I had to use qsv_vp9 for it since I was running out of time and space. Also don’t mind the fist video’s bad fps, I was compiling in the background and forgot.

Simultaneously installing apps: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/719811866959806514/1217198163149197332/record.mp4?ex=66032720&is=65f0b220&hm=b1e495b579a5313cbaf0f3046ba78479f51dd44fa9f8ecf21929784c27fcbd66&

Phone aspect ratio: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/719811866959806514/1217198532641951856/record.mp4?ex=66032778&is=65f0b278&hm=4c4031dc44a5432570605bfa202720c0613105cd0c8487954d5859e0ec52e3ce&

Plasma mobile on x86 tablet vs gnome software: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/719811866959806514/1217287580916125818/tablet.webm?ex=66037a67&is=65f10567&hm=c4afb4d964b35e04f0a4b12d387a5110403ecf74d267747b5dc2738ff12166bd&

The issue with flat packs is the more you use it, the higher the chance that you get less shared runtimes and the higher the chance of the duplication. And at some points it really does get to awfully ridiculous levels.

A while back, I had run everything I possibly could with Flatpak to the point I’d even make my own Flatpak to try and see how well it would work. Instead of using the AUR. And it worked great for the first little while. I’d installed all of my apps and it was fine, but as I kept using the system, kept installing new apps and not uninstalled the old ones, it really started to build up awfully quick, especially with older apps.

I feel like the usefulness of flatpaks is the inverse parabola, where it’s extremely useful in the center use, but when you go to either side of it, it becomes less and less useful.

Apologies for any incoherentcy this was written with a speech 2 text.

I use mpvpaper on sway and cosmic

crostini is pretty damn great but it’s important to know what it IS and it’s actually really simple. Crostini is two things combined into one

Firstly A VMM

Crostini uses the crosvm VMM which is can be thought of kinda like an inhouse version of qemu but designed to explicitly run natively integrated and high performance VMs safely instead of being a swiss army knife (KVM acceleration, virtio peripherals etc) (PS. it’s written in rust too) They use it for chromeOS to integrate android support (on select newer devices) and linux. It runs a supervisor distro which can run containers inside of it.

ChromeOS calls the VM termina. Im not sure what distro is running in the VM, or if its a specialized one. I forget

Next is the containerization

It is a lot like distrobox, It can run a myriad of distros but the key part of it is sommelier. A wayland compositor designed to render windows through virtio-wayland, an extension of virtio-gpu. In practice very similar waypipe which rendering wayland windows to a remote wayland client using network/sockets (Yes, it does support AV_VSOCK so it can work with qemu.)

Sommelier is run in the containerized Distro, running on the TerminaVM. Using termina provides excelent security and performance, and then using LXD inside of termina provides excellent flexibility

The guts of “crostini” crosvm, virtio-wayland, sommelieris all open source, you can actually (with some degree of hassle) set this up entirely yourself, or do what I do, and run qemu + waypipe for a similar experience. Waypipe is much easier to setup however it comes at a preformance detriment since qemu virtio-gpu perf is worse then crosvm (no vulkan support in qemu yet still)

EDIT: s/Architecturally/in practice/ I have no idea why I said Architecturally. they are quite different things. I must have had a brain fart

I just get any windows tablet that has good linux support and throw bliss on it, Linux tablet situation is bad right now