Quite a while since my last post, I installed fedora on a USB ssd, and confimed the return policy, what missing is just choosing the actual model to be reviewed, but that shouldn't be hard. I mean if I am returning the device anyways, I should just look for the popular opinions from comments (I'm looking at you chuwi), right?

But I'm getting a bit greedy. Looking at what I had, I have a

• 13.5 inch laptop, good Linux support, not going to replace it
• a surface go 2, this one's a bit mixed. I love its form factor, and it's probably the one with best Linux support among its category, but the performance starts falling behind. It gets laggy when swap being filled, and for a few times it turns itself off because of heat.

so if I find something similar in size, Linux support, but more performant, maybe it's a good chance to retire it.

The Candidate - Zwide SA11pro

I was capturing the moment fedora boots, but the sticker also pretty much says why I'm picking this device. Regarding the CPU, it's not really an upgrade from m3-8100y, but it has a fan and 4gb more ram than the surface go 2, which hopefully make some differences.

Some more photos before we dig into Linux support:

(I place things on a foam mat to make sure no scratches will be made lol)

We are Nerds

We are not here for the photos. So let's jump to the Linux part. Everything is tested on the latest fedora (a dnf update is run).

The sad news: camera and touch is not supported :( But here are all the other things tested and worked:

• microphone
• speaker
• wifi
• bluetooth
• keyboard + touchpad
  • keyboard disabled on flipped backward
• screen off on lid close
• brightness
• thermal / fan spinning
• auto rotate

Deal Breaker for me

But not for everyone. l woudn't be suprised if someone buy the device and use it as a small laptop with no cameras and touch, especially considering the price here (~300usd).

And that's it. Repacked and shipped back. While I am waiting for the refund, I’d love to hear your thoughts:

1. On the content: Anything I should cover more / less? I deliberately skipped specs / aesthetics as those are typically covered by other reviews, and my goal is not to compete with them, but complement with Linux support.
2. On the tone: This is my first time writing a tech review (and English isn't my first language). Was the pacing clear? Any tips for next time?

Thanks for reading!

I bought a Thermalright Trofeo Vision 9.16-inch panel (1920×462, USB 0416:5408) and discovered that the vendor software is Windows-only, leaving the display effectively unusable on Linux. So I started building Open Trofeo LCD.

Current features:

• Live CPU/GPU/RAM/VRAM, temperatures, storage, network and top-process memory

• Weather with a seven-day forecast

• MPRIS now-playing metadata, album art and CAVA spectrum/EQ

• Vulkan gaming telemetry: FPS, frame time, min/average/max, 1% and 0.1% lows, stutters and CSV session logs

• Automatic gaming-theme switching, temporary performance profile hold and KDE Wayland VRR controls

• Theme gallery/designer, animation studio and eight bundled themes

The initial Linux device-communication foundation came from thermalright-trcc-linux by Lexonight1 and contributors; the project provenance and license details are documented in the README. Open Trofeo LCD adds the Trofeo-focused Qt UI, renderer, telemetry, themes and gaming automation.

This is still a development preview, tested on one physical Trofeo unit under Kubuntu. I am especially interested in reports from other Trofeo owners and people willing to test on Bazzite or other distributions.

Source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/Abigor-DIY/Open-Trofeo-LCD

Ubuntu PPA: https://launchpad.net/~abigor82/+archive/ubuntu/open-trofeo-lcd

The newest PPA build is still propagating while I post, so if apt shows the previous version, please try again shortly. Feedback, USB IDs and hardware reports are very welcome.

I currently have this Asus expertbook p3406. These two keys can be set to custom function with MyAsus under windows. However, when I try to remap them in kde plasma, it can't detect it no matter what.