I tried 22-04 img on Intel i5. Considering the problems I've faced with Qubes, etc. in past, for such a 1st img , please accept my standing ovation and claps for the whole team.
GUI loading and stability was awesome. 10/10 for 1st image.
I have some feedback. 1. Mouse using my trackpad was very difficult to manage, it wasn't stable. 2. There's no shutdown button, poweroff button and no instructions in documentation on how to do so. I had to use hardware based shutdown which definitely harms my hardware.
I wasn't able to use ramfs depot to download genodelabs tools. I'd try it after a shutdown button is introduced as hardware shutdown messes my hardware.
Thanking you Sagar Acharya
Hi Sagar,
thanks for giving Sculpt OS 22.04 a try! Feedback is always much appreciated.
- Mouse using my trackpad was very difficult to manage, it wasn't stable.
In the current version, we rely on the BIOS emulation of a PS/2 mouse. This works reasonably well with Thinkpads but - depending on the BIOS - can be flaky, especially on recent machines by other vendors.
We will probably need to add a proper touchpad driver down the road.
- There's no shutdown button, poweroff button and no instructions> in documentation on how to do so. I had to use hardware based
shutdown> which definitely harms my hardware.
There are two aspects to it.
First, to maintain file-system consistency, our current file-system component issues a sync every 10 seconds. So it is safe to turn off the machine a few seconds after the last write operation.
Second, to trigger the powering-off in software, you will need the ACPICA component, which you can find in alex-ab's depot. E.g., you may give the battery applet a try. When deploying this component, you can assign the 'system status' ROM to it, which corresponds to the file /config/system. In the presence of ACPICA, you can change this file to
<system state="poweroff"/>
...which prompts ACPICA to turn off the machine.
Cheers Norman
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Norman Feske -
Sagar Acharya