So about 2 months ago I made this post about looking for an iPad replacement that runs Linux. I said I wasn’t in a rush, but after thinking about it ever since and seeing the Minisforum V3 go on sale for just $1000, I pulled the trigger.
My impressions are still very new (I have used it for a total of 2 hours at this point), but I’m super happy so far. Installed Fedora 40 and almost everything works out of the box (including a Wacom MPP stylus). As mudkip mentioned in this blog, the volume buttons don’t work when the keyboard is detached and auto-rotation doesn’t work. The former isn’t a big deal and the latter doesn’t affect me in the slightest, but I can confirm those issues are still present on a stock Fedora install.
Anyway, there’s not a lot of information about this tablet running Linux out there, is there anything anyone wants me to test or any questions I can answer?
Have you tried something like input-remapper to map your volume buttons when the keyboard is detected?
Just tried it, and yep, that solved that problem.
Awesome. Great to hear.
Happy Lemmy-versary :)
Thanks!
If anyone is looking for a good 2-in-1 i would suggest the newer generations of the Thinkpad X1 Yoga, i haven’t had a single issue with the 6th gen and fedora. GNOME is really great for touch screens too.
really fucking expensive though
Yeah this was the issue for a lot of the 2-in-1s I looked at. Lenovo, Dell, even Microsoft have some cool options, but they’re insanely expensive by the time you spec them to be comparable to the V3.
i got mine on an insanely good deal paying less than ⅓, normally it would’ve cost >$2500
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The 32gb ram model was $1000, on sale from the usual $1200
How is your drawing experience?
Really good, but I did have to remove the screen protector as I was getting line jitter with it on.
Palm rejection is better than I expected but not as good as an iPad.
I’ve been using a Wacom Bamboo Ink Plus. Pressure sensitivity and stuff works out of the box, no additional drivers needed or anything.
Krita is excellent.
Awesome, thank you!
Does brunch/ChromeOS work ok on it ? 🕺
🤸 Seriously, you could try brunch with linuxloop, and it will add just a line to your grub and will run chromeos in a virtual disk image, not messing up your partitions. You might find it useful sometimes thanks to its android apps
You could also just run android apps on Linux using Waydroid or Anbox and avoid having to use a neutered spyware system
Waydroid Is not that usable with its “desktop” layer always on
You must be new to Linux as a whole.
Here: https://github.com/mudkipme/awesome-minisforum-v3
Also there’s a TON of reviews about this running Linux. Can’t say a bad thing about it.
You must be new to Linux as a whole.
lmao i am not
Then I shouldn’t have had to share that link with you which will solve all your issues, right? I’m sure you know all the Linux things from your sarcasm, and it’s the Hardware’s fault.
What crawled in your coffee and died this morning? It’s attitudes like this that stop people from wanting to switch to linux. Someone considering it will scroll through, see you being a dickhead, and go: Well…if this is what the community is like, idk if I want to try linux…
Check yourself pal. You’ve got a shit attitude, and you’re doing no one any favours.
I was just pointing out the state of things on an up-to-date distro like Fedora as many times a newer kernel fixes stuff like this and no one bothers to update old reviews. I was already aware of the link you provided (it’s literally pinned to the top of the blog post I linked in my main post), but it’s irrelevant when I’m talking about the out-of-the-box experience. I only tried the input-remapper fix because someone pointed it out and I wanted to confirm that worked for me.
I didn’t make this post to complain about issues or ask for solutions, I’m here looking for interesting ideas and questions about this super cool hardware. This thing’s fucking awesome and I wanted to share.
