Quack Doc

Does this mean we will finally be able to mark/search mobile/TV compatible apps? i remeber there being talk about that supported with appstream metadata

i’ve been using sonobus lately and it’s been pretty good, I had latency issues when I tested the android app a long time ago, ill have to test it again

You could probably look into something like paperwm or Niri, I think scrollable window managers have a lot of potential to be a novel but good touch experience

EDIT: Im not sure if niri support touch, I havent tested it, but I think i might actually try it myself when I get the chance now

I am, very hesitantly, optimistic for the new smithay based compositors. Cosmic doesn’t have touch support yet, but it’s super light weight, I get better perf then I do even with KDE. I plan on swapping to it full time on my tablet when it gets touch support. (and when some touch friendly gui stuff is available). you also have catacomb which is an actual mobile compositor. Very promising stuff, but still very far out

I find that even if you get a touch primary device, make sure to get one with a keyboard, Ubuntu, Fedora, doesn’t matter, KDE, Gnome doesn’t matter, the touch only experience on linux is simply not great. Make extra sure to get the keyboard with it if its optional.

it’s not accurate to say android is centred on touch input. Android has some of, if not the most diverse input options, mouse and keyboard works fine, also there is a large library of apps compatible with remotes/gamepads. While that might be how a lot of people normally interact with it, android is very well developed to be diverse

android as desktop works pretty decently actually, it can be quite nice when you set it up, especially for lower end hardware, and ofc, if you need more flexibility, you can run linux in a chroot and use x11 to bring the screen to the android env. or go vice versa and use waydroid in linux and your desktop, then simply swap out when you dont need it. (though waydroid can be harder on low end hardware)

before anyone gets too excited, this doesn’t seem like it applies to DG2 gaming cards, ATSM and PVC are compute cards

+SR-IOV Capability
+=================
+
+Due to SR-IOV complexity and required co-operation between hardware, firmware
+and kernel drivers, not all Xe architecture platforms might have SR-IOV enabled
+or fully functional.
+
+To control at the driver level which platform will provide support for SR-IOV,
+as we can't just rely on the PCI configuration data exposed by the hardware,
+we will introduce "has_sriov" flag to the struct xe_device_desc that describes
+a device capabilities that driver checks during the probe.
+
+Initially this flag will be set to disabled even on platforms that we plan to
+support. We will enable this flag only once we finish merging all required
+changes to the driver and related validated firmwares are also made available.
+
+
+SR-IOV Platforms
+================
+
+Initially we plan to add SR-IOV functionality to the following SDV platforms
+already supported by the Xe driver:
+
+ - TGL (up to 7 VFs)
+ - ADL (up to 7 VFs)
+ - MTL (up to 7 VFs)
+ - ATSM (up to 31 VFs)
+ - PVC (up to 63 VFs)
+
+Newer platforms will be supported later, but we hope that enabling will be
+much faster, as majority of the driver changes are either platform agnostic
+or are similar between earlier platforms (hence we start with SDVs).

I myself am currently using a Chuwi Hi10X. I don’t have too many major complaints about it other than its quite underpowered. It does perform decently well until you need something graphics related then just kinda sucks. However I can use Firefox with it without any major gripes aisde from video playback, then I need to use chromium.

The desktop environment you use can actually play a massive part in its usability. I have found that GNOME is pretty much useless. KDE isn’t bad but it’s still heavy. I have been testing Cosmic DE and it has been pretty good. Definitely the best performing of the bunch so when that releases I’ll probably be using that full time.

I tried it and I don’t think it’s usable. the applications it has are quite frankly garbage. and it overall feels janky to control. not great IMO

Intel A350, can’t say I have many complaints now. a lot of the issues have been ironed out. I’m not sure if the sparse work has landed for i915 yet, but once it does I don’t think I will have too many super major issues left. Im getting some artifacts when using gamescope, but that’s not a major issue for me since I don’t really need gamescope

ah I am using liftoff, maybe it doesn’t support it, just logged into via webpage and I do now

What client do you use? I see no such thing.

its a hard sentence to read for sure lol

what Guest OS are you running? IF it is windows, the opengl driver is still a WIP and hasnt been merged yet IIRC.

I always reccomend using qemu cli, for qemu-cli you can do something like

-device virtio-gpu-gl  -display spice-app,gl=on

or if you are doing remote VMs you can use a remote spice viewer and connect to the port like so

-device virtio-gpu-gl  -display egl-headless  -spice port=3001,disable-ticketing

EDIT: for more reading, you can go through these docs I wrote for bliss. they are oriented more for android but they are still widely applicable https://docs.blissos.org/installation/install-in-a-virtual-machine/advanced-qemu-config/

i think thats all the more reason to get more and more people to try it in hopes that it will get the sponsorship it needs. IMO it really does have potential to be one of, if not the best video editor

for me, ill probably always use olive at this point, its such a phenomenal editor and blows kde out of the water for ease of use and flexibility.

especially when you test the glsl pr

while typically I would agree, safetynet actually does do a lot to provide a safe execution environment. Yes, it can be used for vendor lock-in BS and drm, however it does also get used to protect privileged apps like banking apps, secure email etc

you can follow the waydroid instructions, though you may need to do waydroid show-full-ui from within weston

The easiest solution is to use a nested compositor, Sway, Weston, Cage all work fine. Weston might be available in your repos already.

simply launch weston, then launch waydroid and it should work