edk2-sdm845 VS linux

Considering the community spends more time tweaking Xiaomi and Google mobile devices, I would love for them to make some flagship tablets on the market. Dex is good and all, quite handy considering the size (for a tablet w included keyboard vs a laptop), but that is about all I can say about samsung in my recent years experience. XDA has been overclocking the original sd865 to match or overpower sd888 powered phones, both performance-wise and thermally. There is even a uefi bootloader for some sd845 phones (mostly xiaomi). The same goes for ubuntu touch (google and xiaomi)

You may want to look into things like: https://projectsandcastle.org/status. Like the other commenter said, iOS is locked down. If you want a Linux tablet, look at the JingPad, or just any old Android tablet.

There is a chance you could go through _lots_ of work to get some _Android_ device to work on raw Linux with the edk2-sdm845 UEFI firmware (https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-sdm845) that chainloads from the Android bootloader (ABL).

This isn't true at all, Windows for Odin is an active part of the renegade project and a dev is working on compatability so we know exactly what is currently working and what isn't: https://renegade-project.org/#/en/windows/state-frame.html https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-sdm845

this is done by an Open source project, if Qualcomm were to give proper drivers then the performance would be much much better

figuring out how to get a kernel & normal environment booting seems to be one of the biggest challenges.

there is a TianoCore EDK2 porting effort underway that seems to have support on a good number of phones. who knows what works & doesn't once you are able to start running your own mainline kernel, but way cool to see over a dozen phones on this list!

https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-sdm845

This is possible due to this project

Interesting! I've used Linux Mint for the last 5+ years (and am using the Xanmod kernel, which is on 6.6), but have always been Pop OS curious. This increases my curiosity, I may have to give it a go on my laptop.

https://xanmod.org/

For those on Linux mint you can install the xanmod kernel for improved performance, specifically tailored for gaming on Debian based distros.

Generally, Arch is the better platform for getting various kernel versions, but there's always stuff like Xanmod which is easy to do in any distro. Worst case, could always use linux-tkg script to build your own kernel - with that kind of hardware it shouldn't take long for the kernel to be built.

Still a bit of a noob. I haven't heard of that one. Do you mean this: https://xanmod.org/? Is there any stability or compatibility issues that come with it?

The ArchWiki has some tips that can help tuning your system to squeeze more performance: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/gaming

This launcher does help too: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode

On top of that, you can use a patched kernel like: https://xanmod.org/

You can check support status for games here: https://www.protondb.com/

If you run games via Proton with DXVK, you can use the environment variable DXVK_HUD=1 to show a HUD with an FPS meter. Some others prefer mangohud.

Setting your CPU frequency scaling governor and GPU to performance mode also helps.

Xanmod Kernel

There are different drivers available but the best way is to install linux kernel 6.3 which has built in support for rtl wifi. I also have similar adapter and had the problem. I recommend xanmod kernel because it is newer and has the needed driver and it is focussed on desktop performance.

For Debian : https://xanmod.org

Alternatively, try the xanmod kernel https://xanmod.org/