Just had to drop a post, this OS is awesome, much better choice for non gaming type machine, its very solid, is basically everything good about Bazzite, but with extras under the hood.
This is now going to my goto OS, have just installed it on 3 different model Dell Latitude 2 in 1’s and everything just works right out of the box.
Latitude 7210 2 in 1:
- i7 10th Gen
- 16GB Ram
- 512GB NVME
- Wifi 7
- Bluetooth 5.x
- GPS
- LTE (Qualcomm)
Latitude 7200 2 in 1
- i5 8th Gen
- 16GB Ram
- 512GB NVME
- Wifi 6
- Bluetooth 5.x
- GPS
Latitude 7275 2 in 1
- Intel M Series 6th Gen
- 8GB Ram
- 256GB NVME
- Wifi 5
- Bluetooth 4.x
- GPS
- LTE
Detects keyboard attach and detach, onscreen keyboard works perfectly, Chromium based browsers all accept input from the onscreen keyboard, battery life is better than Windows, very solid support, mobile data works, simple setup done in the network area of the settings app, GPS works, camera’s work, audio and all the other sensors work, hardware volume buttons are buggy, but this is the same for every Linux, and Chromium based systems I have tested on these machines, sleep and wake work like a Steam Deck, this is the first thing I have noticed using these system’s, they sleep and wake fast, and unlike Windows, they don’t suck the battery down, its almost like an Android experience.
I have another couple of machines to test out, I’ll update this when I get a chance, might be handy for people looking at installing Aurora on a similar machine.
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glad youre enjoying it ^-^
Just did a rebase on another machine running Bazzite, just to see how that works, and was so simple, just one line in the terminal, wait, then reboot, next I will try to roll my own → GitHub - ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
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Just be careful to not rebase to a different desktop enviroment. Ublue doesnt officially support it.
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Yes, read that, I only use KDE anyway, been using KDE since the days of Mandrake back in 2000 
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Oh, I purchased myself a Latitude 7200 (an used one to be honest) like less than a week ago. Battery life is terrible, probably because it’s used, so I was wondering if Windows could handle better. But if you say so…
Also, I think that fingerprint sensor doesn’t work, but I don’t need it.
Anyways, I’m more interested in running a Plasma Mobile interface. I’ll see in a different topic if it’s doable with Aurora.
The battery life is not super great on these even with new batteries, both under Windows and Linux, I have replaced all of mine with new batteries, and I purchased a few spares, the 7210 is a little better, but not by much.
Battery drain is mostly caused by the web browser, all other task are quite low, I have watched an external power monitor once the battery is fully charged, and it can go as low as about 11w average when streaming YouTube, but you need to make sure the browser supports HW Decoding, if not, it will chew the battery fast.
Also some web pages will push the CPU up to 40% usage, specially if there is some silly video add on there, its a real mixed bag, I left HTOP running while I was doing tasks to see what was eating power, as I can get 6 to 7hrs sometimes, then other times its like 2.5hrs, and it’s usually some video feed that is doing it.
I also run a stack of 3D Printers, and having a web page open to Mainsail on them will also push the CPU up over 40% continuously, as soon as I close the page, back own to under 10%, so some web pages for some reason are just hogs.
I cant help with the fingerprint sensor as none of mine have this, I’ve also tried Plasma-Mobile, just installed Fedora to test that as they have a spin, its not great, I actually prefer to use full KDE and just do a few things in the GUI to make it better for tablets.
- Set the task bar to Dodge Windows.
- Set touchscreen gestures, right hand swipe in, I set to Application Launcher, and left swipe in to Overview.
- Increase Task Bar to 56 Pixels
- Set spacing on the Task Bar to Large and un-group applications
- Configure most things as Web Apps with Brave and set each of these with Special Application Settings, forcing to Maximise and remove Title Bar on Startup, this makes it feel more like a tablet as everything then looks and feels like a full app, gives you that Android or Chromebook touch like experience.
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