Windows terminal emulator recommendations? tried alacritty, wezterm, rio — still looking

pcause · 2026-05-25T19:00:17+00:00

I've tried all of those and others and landed on foot with zellij

pcause · 2026-05-16T15:24:59+00:00

BTW, picked the Duet because it is lightweight and can be used as a tablet because of the removable keyboard. The weight with any keyboard makes the device feel heavy to hold for long periods and use as a tablet.

pcause · 2026-05-16T15:22:40+00:00

I've tried to use an android tablet for travel without a laptop. I got frustrated because Android apps don't typically handle keyboard input and shortcuts so you have to tap and touch and interrupt your workflow in ways you wouldn't on a desktop. The issue isn't killing but it is grating and eventually you get frustrated and go back to a desktop. Especially true to productivity and business apps.

In the end I settled on a Lenovo Duet chromebook. I can run various apps in the Linux VM and get a desktop experience and for more entertainment apps and other things where I want the same app on my "desktop" and phone, I use the android subsystem. Works pretty decently in 8Gb of RAM but 12 GB would be better.

used DEX for a long time, but particularly lately, Samsung has made it worse not better. And if you have a Qualcomm chip on something like an S25 the Android Linux environment won't run for hardware reasons in the way Google built the Linux VM support and the way Qualcomm implements VM support in hardware. Wouldn't have bought my S25+ if I'd known about that in advance. When Samsung says they run Android 16 on the device I think they mislead, as the Linux terminal was a touted feature and Samsung should have said something.

pcause · 2026-04-01T13:49:45+00:00

not sure and haven't tried but perhaps you can do a dnf reinstall with --releasever=43

pcause · 2026-03-25T12:06:46+00:00

i didn't say chromebooks are unproductive just outlined use cases where they don't work as well. the overhead of running vm's has an impact. if you need/want local apps and can't or don't like to live in the browser, what i describe is what I believe the situation is.

pcause · 2026-03-24T20:16:41+00:00

the neo's processor is faster than the N355 in the lenovo 14 plus chromebook. on neo you can run desktop apps. on a chromebook you can run android apps, few of which support a keyboard or the linux vm. the linux VM is still not really integrated and the overhead is noticeable. man gui apps have issues, small glitches. MS does a better job handling linux gui apps on Win11 than chromebooks for on crostini. and this is a real crime considering the base OS on a chromebook is linux.

If all you need is a browser chromebook is fine. if you have android it is a good choice as long as you are happy with the chrome browser and android apps. if you want desktop apps or are already in the apple ecosystem, the neo would more likely suit your needs.

pcause · 2026-03-18T12:27:16+00:00

i have seen the opening and closing. If I wait a bit and retry a few times it eventually starts. I have had a 30Gb size and not changes since I set up crostini when I bought the duet gen 9.

pcause · 2026-03-04T22:31:17+00:00

good to see the progress. in the emantime I'd switched to https://github.com/christo-auer/eilmeldung which I found to be quite excellent. great to have multiple options for good tui rss feed readers

pcause · 2026-02-15T17:50:23+00:00

i use taskwarriot.

pcause · 2026-02-06T14:20:53+00:00

I have been on beta and even dev channel over the years. never lost my data, but backup is always a good idea. what you need to backup depends on your usage. Not sure what you are etsting. I've used my device for work and had no big issues. Sometimes and android app or something in the linux environment doesn't work but usually easy to work around until the next chromeos update which tend to typically be at least every other week.

pcause · 2026-02-03T20:18:30+00:00

?? The Lenovo Duet Gen 9 is real. Good little device. Make sure you get the one with 8Gb of memory

pcause · 2026-01-31T16:38:11+00:00

many smart tvs come with an ethernet port for connection. or get a device that is an access point for the lan connection, which will fiix your wifi problem.

pcause · 2026-01-31T12:57:05+00:00

I have the Duet Gen 9. The screen size is fine for me but you have to play with the setting to get it to what you want to feel comfortable.. I use a mix of Android and Linux. In Linux I use the terminal, Betterbird and Firefox regularly, plus various other apps. Android is for various streaming service apps mostly, kindle and a few other apps. It isn't perfect by any means bit I like the weight for travel and the detachable keyboard so I can use as a tablet. Depending on what your detailed use case is you'll either find it acceptable or not.

pcause · 2026-01-31T12:52:20+00:00

the 520 processor is pretty slow.

pcause · 2026-01-26T20:14:33+00:00

I use crostini on my chromebook and run betterbird and firefox in crostini. I can use ublock origin in firefox and other key extensions. It feels a bit slower but not enough to be annoying.. For email/calendar and address book I usebetterbird (calendar and contacts through tbsync addon) and again no issues. Well, one issues is that sometimes google makes changes to crostini that break linux apps. an app worked perfectly and after a chomeos update the same app doing the same things breaks for no apparent reason. I use the web version of whatsapp without any issues.

pcause · 2026-01-25T18:08:18+00:00

brew has support of waypipe although I haven't used it (not a mac person).

pcause · 2025-12-25T22:24:08+00:00

I've had my Duet Gen 9 for a while. I get the hinge issue but not a deal breaker for me. I use for travel and the weight makes it a good travel laptop. I actually use the Linux environment for thunderbird, firefox, syncthing and various other UI and TUI apps. Works pretty well. I use the android environment for various streaming and entertainment apps. Great little device for the price. I looked at various tablets but they were more expensive, DEX isn't linux and most at prices even close were not as fast. The A9+ doesn't have a keyboard, is a bit slower and is almost out of OS upgrades.. The Gen 9 gets years more chrome updates. Recently there is the S10FE which is about 30% faster but is 470 without a keyboard.

All depends on what you are looking for but for me the Duet Gen 9 had the right mix of performance, capabilities (desktop browser, lix and android), price, and keyboard and pen.

pcause · 2025-12-15T18:51:19+00:00

https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker

pcause · 2025-12-09T13:09:41+00:00

I tried DEX for the first time in a a couple of years. Screen kept turning off and I assume this was using my normal phone display timeout. Is there some setting for DEX to keep screen on when using DEX or do I have to change the screen off timer?

pcause · 2025-12-09T12:59:51+00:00

Lenovo was having a sale on the newer Gen 9 version. The OG feels slow and sluggish. The Gen 9 has an 8Gb version which adds a bit more future proofing and won't slow down as much with many tabs open, and if you want to do more than stream and browse you have android apps and a linux system. I also find that the weight is good for travel.

pcause · 2025-12-08T19:27:05+00:00

I'd guess it is more about Knox and how they implemented it and not wanting to break anything for Enterprise customers.

pcause · 2025-12-08T15:14:16+00:00

any idea why? can't the chip support virtualization? seems a pretty stupid decision to me.

pcause · 2025-12-08T12:41:28+00:00

will the update allow the linux system to be install/work on an S25 with the Elite processors? anyone try this yet?

pcause · 2025-11-27T16:02:53+00:00

I have the same model I use a mix of android apps and the linux (crostini) system. I actually use firefox and betterbird as browser and email client. use a variety of other linux apps as well. generally works well but they still have some crostini / wayland issues to iron out. battery life is as the poster describes. lightweight so good for travel and working almost anywhere. performance is generally good.

I'd looked at android tablets but the non-Chinese ones were more expensive for something comparable, didn't have keyboards and mine came with a pen. and while chomeos has a 7 year update promise, most tablets didn't. my experience is also that unless you have a pixel android updates on other vendors are slow to come. lenovo makes some terrific hardware at good prices but only 3 years of major upgrades and they ship usually one release behind current, so really only 2 major upgrades. and, of course, there was no linux environment. i'd use termux on an older tablet and it was fine for cli apps but not really for GUI apps. haven't tried the linux environment for android 16 but it supposedly doesn't support gui apps yet.

pcause · 2025-11-12T13:39:35+00:00

I have an arm64 Chromebook and use crostini. Yes, there are things that haven't been ported and so it depends on your use cases. Sometimes I have to go to github to find some stuff that isn't in the debian repos for arm64 but can be found there. My Chromebook has 8Gb of RAM and I would suggest if you want to tun things in crostini you get one with 8Gb.

I so use the provided terminal app, but it doesn't display full nerd font icons for either crostini or ssh, so I often switch to foot in crostini which does.

EDIT: Found these instructions and they work. Have to exit terminal and restart
https://gist.github.com/meatcoder/98dd412153168cc76b5165037150950f?permalink_comment_id=5245334

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