I have a Microsoft Surface 7 running NixOS. Everything works, even touch/pen
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@mjpc13 @cyclohexane that’s impressive. Would mean the laptops should also be supported ? Was it hard to do?
It was not too hard if you are already familiar with Nix. The features supported (and the custom Linux kernel) can be found in surface-linux. For NixOS I used the nix-hardware flake to simplify things.
The worst part was the compilation of the Linux kernel, that took hours on the surface. Eventually, I used the remote nix build feature to compile on a more capable computer.
@mjpc13 this would be an amazing blog if you wrote it up. Front page HN content right here. Very cool stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Maybe I'll write something in the future
Just a reboot. There's an EFI menu listing all the available images - I keep a couple of old ones around to roll back to in case of problems - and I just select the one I want.
I have a ZFS Ubuntu deaktop install que on an all amd PC and use snap. Given that everyone else has something completely extravagant and hate snaps, I'd say my standard build is unusual.
I use Microsoft edge
I have a 2010 iomega arm board NAS. It is a board and a 3.5 HDD in an extruded enclosure. Lenovo bought them and quickly trashed the OS with google ads in the web interface, then dropped support. The HDD was aging and a bit noisy for my liking. So I found an industrial sata SSD and swapped out the 3.5 HDD. I found an OXNAS kernel online, and installed debian (only supports older Kernel 3.xx due to limit of memory ) Runs older version of OpenMediaVault for Samba shares, and daap server plugin. But recently setup MiniDLNA. Streams music mostly to our sound system, to my phone or PC. Does that on 256MB RAM