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Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

cookiengineer wrote: post #97

Honestly when I am looking at their other models like the StarBook and StarFighter, I have a weird feeling that I cannot repair them once the battery or other parts breaks down. They have an internal battery similar to the format of A1278 MacBooks, which makes my spidey sense go off that it's not easily repairable without breaking a ribbon flex cable. I don't need a bleeding edge gaming GPU, I don't need USB4, I don'…

> Why can't we have nice replaceable battery packs, RAM, and m2 SSDs anymore? I mean, not even the Framework laptop has a replaceable battery pack? WHY?

https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Battery+Replacement+Guide/85

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by no_time »

PrivateButts wrote: post #98

A bit ago I did a bit of an experiment with an old surface tablet, where I threw some linux distros at it to see what the experience was. I tried Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Fedora, and all were extremely janky to downright broken. On screen keyboard was completely broken with Wayland, with some apps like Firefox just not popping it open, to others ignoring input. X had trouble with screen rotation. Fedora wouldn't let me p…

>On screen keyboard was completely broken with Wayland, with some apps like Firefox just not popping it open

Did you check if FF was actually running in wayland mode? Not trying to blame you, the current situation is pretty dire. The only reliable way of finding out if something is actually using wayland is running xeyes and seeing whether the eyes move above the target window.

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by eternityforest »

ryantse wrote: post #111
eternityforest wrote: post #15

Why did they have to use a micro HDMI port? Couldn't they have done dual USB-C and made one the DisplayPort output? MicroHDMI is not a very nice connector, it's a lot of pins under mechanical stress from the heavy, rigid HDMI people generally attach to it.

From https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite-specification >: Micro HDMI USB Type C 3.2 with Power Delivery 3.0 USB Type C 3.2 with Power Delivery 3.0 Micro SD Memory Card Reader 3.5mm Headphone Jack HDMI version: 2.0 USB-C Interface: Display Port (DP Alt Mode) USB version: 3.2 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gbps) Maybe I am missing something, but it seems to have Display Port for their USB-C?

Oh nice! That makes it a lot more interesting

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

#135

Post by TylerE »

pulse7 wrote: post #128
froggertoaster wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed - ARM put x86 on the clock, and Apple Silicon - the best implementation of ARM yet - is the death knell of x86. Every opinion to the contrary feels like cope, because it's coming, and fast.

Latest Intel chips are faster than Apple Silicon in single and multi-thread benchmarks... (they use more power, but they are faster...)

These days I’ve started to care a lot more about power per watt than raw numbers. Watts = heat = fans = noise.

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by fifteen1506 »

resonious wrote: post #116
PrivateButts wrote: post #98

A bit ago I did a bit of an experiment with an old surface tablet, where I threw some linux distros at it to see what the experience was. I tried Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Fedora, and all were extremely janky to downright broken. On screen keyboard was completely broken with Wayland, with some apps like Firefox just not popping it open, to others ignoring input. X had trouble with screen rotation. Fedora wouldn't let me p…

I suspect this is largely because the Microsoft Surface products contain a lot of proprietary hardware components that aren't not well supported by the kernel. KDE and friends have pretty good touch screen support, but it's all for naught if you have no drivers.

No OSK on X11 though, on KDE.

Gnome has on both.

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by bootsmann »

PrivateButts wrote: post #98

A bit ago I did a bit of an experiment with an old surface tablet, where I threw some linux distros at it to see what the experience was. I tried Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Fedora, and all were extremely janky to downright broken. On screen keyboard was completely broken with Wayland, with some apps like Firefox just not popping it open, to others ignoring input. X had trouble with screen rotation. Fedora wouldn't let me p…

Idk how recent you tried this but I had the entirely opposite experience with an old Asus transformer mini (which has similar detachable keyboard shenanigans as the surface). Ubuntu had some issues rotating the screen but Fedora worked out of the box. The only complaint was that sometimes you had to coax it to bring up the on-screen keyboard, but everything else, from screen rotation to the gnome finger swiping gestures worked really well in both laptop and tablet mode. Maybe its microsoft using a particularly strange hardware stack or just luck.

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

#140

Post by bufferoverflow »

TylerE wrote: post #135
pulse7 wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Latest Intel chips are faster than Apple Silicon in single and multi-thread benchmarks... (they use more power, but they are faster...)

These days I’ve started to care a lot more about power per watt than raw numbers. Watts = heat = fans = noise.

You realize we're commenting on a post about a fanless laptop running Intel CPU?
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