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  • About a year ago I was lucky on eBay, winning an old Acer Switch Alpha 12 for ~95€ including shipping. I think it was released about 2016.

    Even if it shows a lot of signs of wear, it is still a very good device. I received it with Windows 11, but of course I didn’t want use it like that. 4 gigs of ram aren’t enough for that anyway.

    So I installed Fedora. (Had to rename the uefi boot entry for it to boot from disk. This is described elsewhere online but if you read this post and wonder how to do it, please dm me and I’ll be happy to help.)

    Now this is my primary device for when I’m away from my desktop PC. Gnome is stunning on 2-in-1s IMO, much better than Windows would ever be.

    Hardware wise everything works just fine out of the box, apart from the rear camera which isn’t recognized, but I wouldn’t use that anyway.

    Honestly, the Switch Alpha 12 is the poor man’s MS Surface and I think it’s a shame that Acer has apparently given up on this device class. For now I’m happy to use this pc for as long as I can.







  • Schorsch@feddit.detoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux and AirPod Pros
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    1 year ago

    IMHO this is more a hack than a solution. I love it when things just work out the way they should on Linux as well as on any other OS. Having to use half-baked solutions like this might really turn away potential Linux users.

    Then again, I never had major software-related Bluetooth audio issues on Linux, apart from general lag / audio-video offset. But this is an even bigger issue on Windows afaik…