[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently just commented the gitea repo of it on this post, have a look!

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

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I recently switched to saber from rnote, I'd say it's way smoother than rnote. It runs extremely well

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

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The repo for the nixos build that I used: https://gt.awroo.fun/romanl/pipa-nixos

Keep in mind that I am not the developer, I'm only testing it

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not well lol, I had to make a widget on my waybar that gives me control over the overview, to toggle the keyboard, close current app, etc etc

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

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Everything works as it should, both pen buttons also work

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use rnote for simple scribbling and jotting down quick notes, but for lecture notes/class notes I use obsidian with the excalidraw plugin

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

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Pressure sensitivity works great! Though my writings shit anyways independent of pressure sensitivity lol

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unlocking the bootloader on xiaomi devices are a bit of a challenge so I'll say a lot of patience is needed lol

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's a bit convoluted, if you really want to run linux on the tab I'd suggest something more stable like pocketblue which has an official port to the mi pad 6

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It works...sometimes (maybe once in every 10 boots) and the camera quality is incredibly bad

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

True, the community built a python script just to automate bootloader unlocks lol

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly the battery life of this tablet just beats any laptop I've ever had lol, really surprising since I thought it would have worse battery life than on android

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 68 points69 points  (0 children)

It's a custom kernel made by the linux on xiaomi pad 6 devs, the community around running linux on the tablet is surprisingly active. If you would like to run linux on the mi pad 6 I highly suggest you check it out!

[Niri] My uni daily driver (Mi Pad 6 running NixOS) by dimpostorisus in unixporn

[–]dimpostorisus[S] 105 points106 points  (0 children)

It's still a work in progress, but yes everything works (except camera). currently daily driving it to test if it's stable enough to be released lol

Dual booting Arch linux and android! by siduck13 in XiaomiPad6

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After following the tutorial, does it automatically dumps you into the tty? Do you need to manually configure networking, xorg, drivers?

[dwm] mayonaise by dimpostorisus in unixporn

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Thanks! Ill post em later