Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree

Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by read_if_gay_ on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:22AM (#26749088)

This matches my experience with a 2-in-1 Thinkpad. Obscure bugs (WiFi driver periodically crashing when Thunderbolt is connected) still there after 2 years now.

I think the best bet is going with as much of a run off the mill device as possible. In my experience a separate tablet works much better than a 2-in-1 compromise anyway. When your sole input device is a touchscreen, UX is (unsurprisingly) massively better with a touch-first UI compared to a mouse-first UI.

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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by dTal on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:46AM (#26752047)

The problem isn't the "compromise" - the problem is there is no touch-first UI on Linux. That's the point. I can detach the screen and use it as a "seperate tablet", but it still sucks.

Android, on the other hand, is strictly improved by the addition of a hardware keyboard.

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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by read_if_gay_ on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:47AM (#26759747)

> there is no touch-first UI on Linux

If you’re still looking, you could check out JingOS. I haven’t tried it personally but it seems to be basically an iPadOS desktop environment for Linux.

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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by dTal on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:03PM (#26762457)

No thanks; it's a closed source GPL-violating fork of Plasma Mobile with heavy (and sketchy) marketing.

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