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World's First Fully Modular Gaming Handheld! (invidious.fdn.fr)
submitted 1 year ago by mossy_capivara@midwest.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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Only initial thoughts are why in their right mind are they using windows on a handheld device

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[–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Linux gaming

Windows 11 desktop

Is there device support for Linux?

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking at the thumbnail, I'm assuming they're using the guts from a framework laptop: https://frame.work/linux

Of course, that doesn't say anything about the display or controls, but it's a solid maybe.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a framework mainboard. The display is almost certainly connected via displayport on one of the framework usb-c ports, so that should be fine, and I'm pretty sure they mention the game pads are Bluetooth. There should be no issues running Linux on this.

[–] Privatepower42@fosstodon.org -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@thejevans @DoomBot5 crazy to think that popos and other Linux distributions don’t run on Framework

[–] Sailor_jets@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do? I've run everything from Debian to Arch on mine with zero issues.

[–] Privatepower42@fosstodon.org -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Sailor_jets website says different.

[–] Sailor_jets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guy, you have zero clue about what you are talking about. Fuck the website. All Linux distros are the same except for the package manager. If Ubuntu works on something then so will pretty much everything else that runs a modern kernel.

[–] Privatepower42@fosstodon.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Sailor_jets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

What is your point of posting some forum post with zero context as to what I should be reading (I read the whole thing btw)? Some sort of gatcha moment?

Denied. Hardware drivers on Linux are IN THE KERNEL and the appropriate modules for your hardware are loaded at boot while all the other drivers relax in /usr/lib/modules. And wouldn't you know? Framework laptops all use hardware that has the drivers included with the kernel! such as Intel wifi, Intel & AMD graphics. And it's done on purpose! Woah!

And just out of spite, here's my framework laptop running Pop_Os! just fine and dandy.

Experience > Text on a webpage

[–] jannem@fosstodon.org 2 points 1 year ago

@Privatepower42 @thejevans @DoomBot5
They most likely do, and without any problems. They're just not *officially* supported; you can't ask for support if there's an issue.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They officially supported the two largest user distros. Beyond that, there are community supported distros. I can't imagine it would be too hard to get other supported ones on there if someone wanted to maintain it.

[–] mossy_capivara@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

I would think so given that the mainboard runs well with Linux but I'm not about everything else