Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet

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40 points | by vhaudiquet 2 days ago

5 comments

  • cvhc 11 minutes ago
    Cool but my Duet is the later generation with MediaTek Kompanio 838 :(

    I really like the form factor. I use my PC at home and corp laptop for work, and I don't need another powerhouse laptop. A lightweight 2-in-1 tablet works well for me. But I never found an OS doing well in both desktop and tablet modes. Most Windows and Linux apps are for desktop. ChromeOS with ArcVM is supposed to work but the performance is terrible. I hope Android desktop mode would do better.

  • denysvitali 1 hour ago
    I just did something similar to bring mainline Linux to my Daylight DC-1 [1] [2], although possibly more difficult since I had to start from scratch.

    I can guarantee the same amount of work, without AI, takes probably 10x or more time (I did it in the past w/ the Google Pixel C [3]).

    Unfortunately it looks like pmOS is against AI [4], so I'll likely switch away from pmOS and never contribute a single line in the future. Too bad, I was a huge fan [5].

    [1]: https://daylightcomputer.com/product

    [2]: https://x.com/DenysVitali/status/2091238391710888416

    [3]: https://github.com/pixelc-linux/documentation

    [4]: https://docs.postmarketos.org/policies-and-processes/develop...

    [5]: https://blog.denv.it/posts/pmos-k3s-cluster/

  • stratosmacker 1 hour ago
    Wow! Serendipitous, I was just doing the same thing on my duet (trogdor) but I was focused on using Claude to enable the camera (missing in the device tree). I taught it to use depthcharge to reboot into the previous Kernel if a build failed; otherwise boot and start the same Claude chat so I could just let it iterate for days. It took a day to get something usable, pretty amazing.

    Then I setup `howdy` to use the camera for auth.

    now I’m just trying to figure out if I’m allowed to submit this upstream. Postmarketos explicitly rejects LLM submission, but I can submit it to linux-next. Seems to me a shame, this enables folks who have devices and want to fix things (but lack the time/knowledge) to use these LLM powers for a very good cause.

    Plasma mobile has been really great for me, you should try it out!

  • w0m 12 minutes ago
    someone needs to do this for the arm Surface Pro 11.
  • thesuperbigfrog 2 hours ago
    This is a great write-up about installing Linux on Chromebook.

    Thank you for sharing it!