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infernix / samsung_tabpro_s

Various scripts and quirks for Samsung TabPro S tablets
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WSL #9

Open dadr opened 1 year ago

dadr commented 1 year ago

I picked up a TabPro S at the beginning of 2020 thinking I would run linux on it. It wound up being too frustrating. I also love the screen so much that I can't bring myself to sell it. So, I wound up with a great big hack:

Loaded Win10 and all the Samsung proprietary drivers. Then I spent a day turning off all the adware built into windows. Then, and to my surprise, I was able to upgrade to Win11 (have to be part of their insider program to do this) So, yes, I have secure boot enabled. I'm also pleased that the Samsung drivers provided an option to charge the battery only to 85% - claiming that this will extend its life. I have not seen that trick before.

I installed and run Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux. Most things work - even GUI apps. (virt-manager for example) The disk access is slow, but I'm not really doing disk intensive things from this PC anyway.

I still need to see about getting snaps to work, but there is evidence that can be done.

I think everything I've done is really straight-forward. I just wanted to leave some bread crumbs about this option.

infernix commented 1 year ago

I'm sure WSL1 will work, but does WSL2?

Though even if it does - the goal for me was to run it with linux natively so as to really get rid of all bloat. I'd have just ran it as a standalone plex client and nothing else. But it's getting old in the tooth - the screen doesn't do HDR for example - so it's been collecting dust here.

dadr commented 1 year ago

Both work. I started with WSL, and then upgraded when WSL2 came out. I had to run a separate X server in windows for WSL1. Now I don't have to do that anymore and graphic apps start a lot quicker. It just updated recently to Ubuntu 20.04.3 and it shows the 5.15.90 kernel from Microsoft.

I don't typically use it with Plex - I think that the iPad does a much better job with a longer battery life - or I just watch on the television. Mine collects a little dust, as I usually prefer to work on a desktop with a large screen. But I use it when I'm tired of sitting at the computer or when I need to travel to a meeting.