toltec VS oxide

It's just linux under the hood and they give you root access. So you can install anything that you can compile, and you have access to all the compiled packages in entware [0].

For sync, I have wireguard and syncthing. For backups, I use rsync. For epubs, I have koreader. I even installed netsurf for fun, but I don't use it often. I was even using gocryptfs at one point, but that workflow kept breaking with updates so I stopped using that.

All of the tablets that I have seen perform handwriting recognition via a cloud service, so that doesn't interest me and I haven't come across any local solutions for rM (although it's been over a year since I last checked).

It's an unusually nice experience for such an open platform.

[0]: https://toltec-dev.org/

3.x support will come to toltec, I've been blocked by stuff outside of my control a couple of times. Including things happening in my life that I won't get into.

You can see the current progress here: https://github.com/toltec-dev/toltec/issues/820

As for the comment on the kernel change, that was actually an ask by someone in the community: https://github.com/reMarkable/linux/issues/8

I love seeing work in this space! I made a collaborative whiteboard app for the reMarkable a while ago: https://github.com/fenollp/reMarkable-tools

It is packaged in the homebrew Toltec repo https://toltec-dev.org/

Remember to read the warning on Toltec home page:

- https://toltec-dev.org/

Do you ever plan to put your own tools and stuff on it? If so I would reccomened staying on 2.15 so you can use https://toltec-dev.org/. Also newest version 3 software forces infinite scroll and a lot of people absolutely hate it. I happily stay on 2.10. You can change versions as well, unofficially. Not sure if using the cloud still works with that, lots of us have cut that out entirely.

Definitely start by installing toltec if your device is on version <=2.15.1.1189, https://toltec-dev.org

I did this once, with a shared terminal via screen or tmux (and thus not VNC). You can install https://github.com/Eeems-Org/oxide and a terminal application via the toltec repoitories and then ssh (or mosh) from remarkable to the device that has the keyboard.

The launcher is called oxide.

On my RM2 I have a set-up with Oxide (https://github.com/Eeems/oxide), remarkable2-framebuffer, (https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer), touchgestures (https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-touchgestures) and KOReader. It's fine, you can switch between Xochitl (reMarkable UI) and KOReader with gestures, but it needs some Linux knowledge to set it up correctly.

Maybe you want to take a look at using a launcher then. I know that [Oxide](https://github.com/Eeems/oxide) adds a custom'ish sleepscreen to all apps and maybe overrides the xochitl one with a transparent supporting one.