I’m sure it’s feasible, with enough knowledge and effort. How does the connector of each keyboard look? Do you have an oscilloscope or at least a multimeter to poke the keyboards with? And you’ll be needing that Arduino, either for translating it to the builtin kb port or to USB.
Assuming this isn’t a troll post, why wouldn’t it be possible? Not everything has an open source alternative that’s nearly as good. I use Linux, I like open source, but I still use Discord and google services and occasionally a bunch of other closed source apps like Steam. Not everything ever made has to be open source.
You could ssh to your clevo from your thinkpad, or get a bluetooth keyboard, the keychron or royal kludge are great and can be had for under a 100, or you could desolder the keys on the clevo and replace them with scissor switches like in this article tomshardware.com/…/kailh-laptop-switches-scissor-…
You’d have an easier path just modding the existing keyboard to something more like you want. You’re likely not going to fit any other keyboard in your machine for a long list of reasons.
Still proprietary garbage Bios and a VEEERY shitty company behind it.
Try to get free support for a product you paid. Bot possible. They dont even answer a question like “Windows doesnt want to install, you support Windows, how the hell do I do that”.
Look up replacements for the key actions bits and such and see if there is anything out there that gets you closer. Laptops are made to be portable, but not very customizable. Good luck 👍
It kind of is, but also kind of isn’t. Don’t get me wrong I love FreeCAD to bits and it’s basically the only CAD program I use these days, but also the recommended workflow is not how any other CAD program works and is a crutch for the topo naming problem. Hopefully it’s a whole other world once topo naming is sorted.
Yeah, it definitely still has a long way to go. I remember back in 2012 it felt impossible to even do basic 3d modeling, but that was more than 10 years ago.
@BroBot9000 cool. Thanks @alt for the link to Jovian, this might an opportunity to tinker with NixOS... Do you know how nvidia cards is supported ? (nouveau driver is ok for my kind of use).
@flashgnash thanks for reminding me the Pop_OS option... do you know if you can configure Steam to start on big picture mode to start on boot ?
I don’t own any devices with an Nvidia GPU. Therefore, I can’t share my own experiences but only the ones from the community. If my memory serves me right, it should work. However, as usual, expect some strange behavior at times. Thankfully, getting back to a working system shouldn’t cause you any troubles on Jovian-NixOS. Nonetheless, it’s something to keep in mind.
I’m on NixOS using the beta drivers and it does everything as far as I can tell. DLSS, ray tracing all work and performance is the same as windows with the same settings. I don’t think I ever need to go back to windows.
Not really. I’ve had to do quite a bit of experimentation.
My setup that I’ve settled on:
Rocm system libraries from Arch Linux
PyTorch nightly for Rocm pip installed into a venv (see instructions on pytorch homepage)
Set HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION to 11.0.0. This is just for the RX7600 and it tells it to use the RX7900 code as the pytorch version hasn’t been compiled with 7600 support.
Hmm, that’s weird. I was able to run Stable Diffusion locally with Linux + RX6600.
Probably because I used Easy Diffusion. At first, I couldn’t get the GPU acceleration to work, and I was constantly running out of RAM (Not using VRAM), so my system always froze and crashed.
Turns out it was a ROCM bug, that I don’t know if it’s fixed by now, but I remember “fixing it” by setting an environment variable to a previous version.
Then, it all worked really good. Took between 30 seconds to 2 minutes to make an image.
Assuming that you are dualbooting from a single storage device - If you have some money to spare go and buy a second ssd. Keeping both OSes in separate storage devices will result in far lesser chances of screwing up.
install linux After Windows and with its own boot partition. if it has foreign OS probe it finds windows and adds a chainloader grub entry. Set linux as default in bios. Windows never knows it is chainloaded and leaves your linux boot alone
This is what I did, I prepared a partition for windows on the second ssd and it went OK.
The only issue was that I needed to manually add drivers on the windows usb for it to be able to recognized my ssd. It was a bit of a pain to find this information online
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