There was some fiddling to do post installation to get wifi and audio through the speakers working (although careful with this, apparently fiddling with alsa can cause hardware damage. you have to set a kernel flag for it to work).
It’s mostly fine, The omnibook is apparently one of the least problematic models in getting shit working. There isn’t a catch all guide though you have to sort of figure it out from the launchpad bug comments
The function bar at the top doesnt have the shortcuts for things like vol up and vol down working; it’s literally just F1-12, wasnt a big deal for me. and apparently, although i havent tried it myself yet, external displays over HDMI isnt working. screen bightness goes up to 95ish% and then for some reason drops down to basically nothing which is kind of weird but not game breaking. Software support is reasonably good since a lot of linux stuff is already compiled for ARM because of the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs. mine is currently running the “Raspberry Pi” build of Private Internet Access
I set it all up pretty quickly before i flew off on holiday. i did a two and a bit hour flight watching movies and still had 75% battery.
couple days later i did a 4 hour train journey watching movies and having bluetooth and wifi with VPN active and was trying (and failing) to compile stuff and ended the journey with like 30% battery
It’s mostly silent so long as you keep it on a hard surface.
Honestly it’s game changing not having to hover around a power outlet. i’m probs selling my 2020 Razer when i get back to the UK
How is it? Does stuff work?
There was some fiddling to do post installation to get wifi and audio through the speakers working (although careful with this, apparently fiddling with alsa can cause hardware damage. you have to set a kernel flag for it to work).
It’s mostly fine, The omnibook is apparently one of the least problematic models in getting shit working. There isn’t a catch all guide though you have to sort of figure it out from the launchpad bug comments
The function bar at the top doesnt have the shortcuts for things like vol up and vol down working; it’s literally just F1-12, wasnt a big deal for me. and apparently, although i havent tried it myself yet, external displays over HDMI isnt working. screen bightness goes up to 95ish% and then for some reason drops down to basically nothing which is kind of weird but not game breaking. Software support is reasonably good since a lot of linux stuff is already compiled for ARM because of the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs. mine is currently running the “Raspberry Pi” build of Private Internet Access
I set it all up pretty quickly before i flew off on holiday. i did a two and a bit hour flight watching movies and still had 75% battery.
couple days later i did a 4 hour train journey watching movies and having bluetooth and wifi with VPN active and was trying (and failing) to compile stuff and ended the journey with like 30% battery
It’s mostly silent so long as you keep it on a hard surface.
Honestly it’s game changing not having to hover around a power outlet. i’m probs selling my 2020 Razer when i get back to the UK