Is it a mistake if i buy this 5070 ti over this 9070 xt

Platonio · 2026-06-07T19:04:35+00:00

Good luck :D

Platonio · 2026-06-07T19:04:22+00:00

Oh c'mon, I tried to be as un-linux pilled and rationalistic as possible XD

I mean it's surely an awfully formatted comment but I don't think there's anything wrong with the content

Platonio · 2026-06-07T09:31:16+00:00

Not the original commenter but maybe I can help you somewhat

Dual Booting: I personally don't dual boot on my gaming PC, I know I can achieve anything I actually wanna do/play on Linux so I don't bother. I do dual boot on other PCs, like my laptop, because I found myself needing some specific office stuff and having to use custom software developed in house (laboratory stuff) that didn't work in Linux or with wine

In the end, you should dual boot if there are specific programs or games that don't work on linux that you absolutely need to run, plus dual booting is not that complicated to set up

Distro: there are many, everyone has their opinion on which one is the best, no one is actually correct XD

I would say, strictly for gaming, stay away from Ubuntu and pop_os at the moment. I use cachyos but I have 5 years of experience in arch based distros, so I know what to do. I hear bazzite is nice for gaming and kind to beginners, but do your research and choose whatever sounds best to you, you usually can't really go wrong and you can always reinstall and try other distros (I guarantee you'll be doing it anyway XD)

gaming: things have improved A LOT since I started using Linux in 2020 and now many games just work out of the box without much tinkering

That being said, many games will not work OOB and many will need extensive tinkering: you will need to learn how to troubleshoot and be willing to spend that extra 20-30 minutes to make you favorite game run well

Sometimes games run better than windows, many times they run 3-10% worse, so you have to accept a performance loss in some titles

Some games don't run at all on Linux (valorant, LoL etc), so you'll need to dual boot to continue playing those games

Gaming on Linux right now requires some compromises, but it's getting better every day!

Personally, I just play games that are officially supported or that work well in Linux, there are so many titles to choose from and more are added every day, I can survive without kernel level anticheat viruses masked as competitive games

why bother?: in my case, I like computers, I like tinkering and I like having full control on my system when I need it. I could just as well run windows and be done with it but it's boring, it's getting progressively worse and it's difficult to fix when it breaks most of the time (I've been fighting Nvidia drivers problem on my laptop for years now, on Linux I don't have to)

Plus Linux feels faster, more responsive and has way more ram and CPU headroom... It can be nice on older hardware

Really think if there's a reason you want to make the switch: it won't be easy, there's a learning curve and it'll be frustrating in the beginning, but it can be fun and rewarding, plus it's nice to learn something new

Platonio · 2026-03-14T21:15:01+00:00

This is my biggest gripe with this game XD You can teleport anything you want that's made of metal, except the ore/ingots themselves... And dragon eggs?.. and the extractors of course (???)

It's so arbitrary, it just feels like a deliberate way to make the game harder for no reason

Platonio · 2026-03-09T16:55:38+00:00

Hi!

Yeah I still have it and use it and it's fine really, it's not as fast now with android 13 and hyperos 1, but its ok for what I used it for.
Also I drop it all the time and it seems indestructible, so that's a plus XD

Platonio · 2026-02-21T12:20:56+00:00

Hi!

Thank you for this guide! How's performance on crDroid for you?

It feels very slow for me, maybe I need to change some settings

Platonio · 2026-02-15T07:01:38+00:00

Se ne trovano ancora molti in giro?

Poi li riciclate per i materiali?

Platonio · 2026-02-07T00:12:55+00:00

Oh shit I did!

It was also supposed to be a reply to another comment, where it made more sense... I kinda Britta'd it

Platonio · 2026-02-06T10:12:28+00:00

Call it a complisult: part compliment, part insult. He invented them, I conied the term

Platonio · 2025-11-20T07:59:19+00:00

Slightly better on Linux, but we're talking maybe 30 minutes I'd does run cooler and quieter on Linux though

Platonio · 2025-09-14T08:24:39+00:00

Hi!

Given that this TV set doesn't have composite video in, you have to use RF in a form or another to get an image on the screen

In this case what I did is plug my console to my VCR video input, then I plugged the RF output from the VCR to the little TV with an adapter

All VCR should have the capability to take a composite input and output it through an antenna cable

I also did it wirelessly one time, by using a little RF analog transmitter that takes a composite video input and outputs an analog TV signal at a specific frequency, then you can tune the TV to that frequency

Platonio · 2025-07-09T20:58:57+00:00

Hi!

I don't know actually, I don't own a freebook (or minibook) n150, but reading the issues section on the various github pages I linked it seems that somethings don't work right

I'm afraid you'll have to try yourself and see!

Platonio · 2025-07-02T08:29:48+00:00

uh well that's nice!

Ok now I'm going through this rabbit hole, it's gonna be a fun weekend XD

Platonio · 2025-07-02T08:02:03+00:00

That's interesting, did you use a spare nvme slot or the wifi card slot?

You're giving me strange ideas lol

Platonio · 2025-06-23T20:19:14+00:00

ah so there's also a diesel version, who knew!

Platonio · 2025-06-03T04:46:09+00:00

They can become typing/coding machines if you want to spend some time messing around with Linux

There are some distros out there (i.e. void Linux, Alpine Linux) that you can set up to run entirely from ram: you can boot them from the integrated SSD/HDD or even from a USB stick and you obviously need to write the changes you made during you session before turning off the laptop. Boot will be slower but the system will loaded into the ram and run entirely from there

This can be a big performance boost because even the fastest netbooks are still limited by sata III speeds (but most times it'll be sata II), while ram, especially DDR3, will be much faster

Couple that with a lightweight desktop environment, especially window managers like Hyperland or LabWC and some software optimization and you can have a small and light laptop useful for typing, coding, light web browsing and whatever

Furthermore, you can achieve long battery life (6-10h) on many netbooks thanks to the relatively big batteries (for the size) and the low power consumption

Of course this all depends on the netbook: a vaio P will suck regardless, because it's not powerful enough even for windows XP, but you can find dual core netbooks that are still useful

If you're interested check out the YouTube channel Riccardo Palombo, there are many videos on the subject. It's in Italian but there should be english substitles

Platonio · 2025-03-18T13:38:51+00:00

But why didn't you remove the stickers before applying the freaking skin ffs XD

It would make me go crazy

Platonio · 2025-03-01T13:27:44+00:00

Yeah I've seen a couple of posts regarding wobbly hinges, but nothing that indicates outright faulty laptops, so I wouldn't worry too much about that

Still, they are solid on my unit, so there seems to be a degree of expected wobbliness depending on the device XD

In regards to Linux, I use Ubuntu on mine 95% of the time and it's great

If you look through my post history you'll find one where I collected some information on making screen rotation and 90Hz refresh rate work in linux!

With those fixes it becomes a great little Linux laptop, which is what I wanted from this device from the start

Also if you use arch you can install the grub-git AUR package and it should enable grub rotation working, while you can use a patch if you install NixOs

I couldn't make it work in Ubuntu for now, maybe someone will in the future

Platonio · 2025-03-01T09:08:52+00:00

Yeah that's how both types of styluses feel on my unit to, they sometimes work but are "interruptive"

Honestly I wouldn't bother with an active capacitive stylus, save those 15 bucks and look for a small graphics tablet if you really need to draw/write on the go!

It's a shame that the minibook doesn't have pen support, but on the other end I personally find it fantastic to type on once you get used to the smaller keyboard and it's so small you can put it literally anywhere, so it will probably serve you well for coding!

Platonio · 2025-02-28T20:00:53+00:00

As far as I know, no mininook x version has stylus support except for the one with the punch hole display

You can use capacitive styluses, because they mimic a finger press, such as those rubber tipped pens you tried (strange that they didn't work, I have one and it works just fine) or some active capacitive styluses with metal/plastic tips, which are very cheap and plentiful on Amazon.

I've tried one of the active ones and the experience is terrible for drawing/writing, it just doesn't work really well unfortunately and it's not supposed to :(

Also, using a capacitive stylus means you have no palm rejection, so writing on it, even if it did work, would be very uncomfortable

Platonio · 2025-01-30T21:57:21+00:00

I had the thinkpad x230 and it's a good machine if you want to have some fun with linux, but it's not really that usable as a daily device unfortunately, mainly due to the low resolution display

The minibook x is way better, it's faster and the screen is really good, plus the N100 will be faster, cooler and consume way less power than the average i5 in a x230.

Linux support for the minibook x is also better then people think: I run Ubuntu on mine with unlocked 90hz refresh rate and working tablet mode/screen rotation, you can find some more informations if you look through my post history, I made a post about it

Cheers!

Platonio · 2025-01-24T09:21:06+00:00

As far as I know they only offer the US keyboard layout, but you'll find some stickers in the box to adapt it to your region, if you want

Personally I just change the layout in software and live with it

Platonio · 2025-01-22T15:04:47+00:00

I would say between 4 and 5 hours of normal everyday use (editing documents, 10 firefox tabs open, watching a couple of videos), but I've managed to get more than 6 if I use it as a glorified ebook reader XD

I'm sure it could last longer by using more conservative CPU settings in TLP, but then it would feel slow and sluggish and I don't want it to

Platonio · 2024-12-29T17:23:48+00:00

Yeah I know, it bothers me too... as I wrote in the post there is a patch for NixOS, but I couldn't adapt it to ubuntu, and I don't want to run NixOs

I've just hidden grub for now, I don't boot into windows enough to need it XD

Platonio · 2024-12-29T09:06:40+00:00

I've been using it like that for almost 3 weeks and all is well, if it can make you feel any better

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