Hi Fredrik, thank you for your participation!
Fredrik Salomonsson <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Rodion, and fellow Guixers! > > Great initiative! And sorry for taking so long to respond. > Really entertaining and detailed story, not surprised it took so long to be written (: > > ** Setup > > I went with a dual boot solution with Guix and SteamOS. I'm treating > SteamOS as I did Windows way back in the days when I dual booted Windows > and other linux distributions, and that is keep them separate. SteamOS > will nuke anything outside of the home directory and it will overwrite > the UEFI boot meny every time it updates. There might be a way to tell > it to keep Guix around in the UEFI boot meny. I decided to avoid that > headache as I discovered that you can just as easy in the UEFI boot from > an EFI file. So to boot Guix I navigate to its EFI partition and pick > the =guix.efi= file and boot. Similar with SteamOS. But I'm getting a > bit ahead of myself. Just out of curiosity - do you consider using Guix as the only system? What are showstoppers for this - performance, battery life, usability or or maybe something else? > > For my sway configuration I have: > > #+begin_src guile > (home-sway-service-type > config => (sway-configuration > (inherit config) > (variables `((main . "'Valve Corporation ANX7530 U > 0x00000001'") > (touch . "10248:4117:FTS3528:00_2808:1015") > …)) > … > (inputs > (list (sway-input > (identifier '$touch) > (extra-content '("map_to_output $main"))) > …)))) > #+end_src > > To map the touchscreen correctly to the built-in monitor. And that's > it. Is Sway usable with touchscreen (I am a bit surprised)? > > Overall I'm quite happy with the setup. It's not as convenient as a > regular laptop, it takes a bit more time to setup and tear down and the > 7" screen can get a bit crowded for web browsing. The battery life and > suspend are great. Combining those two I had no problem making a full > day on Guix Days without needing to charge. And it makes for a great > travel companion as I can game on it while on an airplane, train or > other transportation. Then boot to Guix when I want to do some hacking. > So no extra laptop is required, which cuts down on travel gear. Battery-wise it is much better than RK3588 Pocket Reform, which lasts only for ~4 hours Thank you again, very unusual experience. Happy hacking, Rodion
