GPD Win 2 - Linux Works Perfect

Good News!

[NovemberJoy]

I can imagine a lot of people will be very happy about this.

[OutlawMantis]

GPD LIN 2
In the past I'd probably have commented that there isn't much use in this (though I do realise the uses on the software front) but there are so many Linux games on Steam now.

[reavershark]

The win one needed a bunch of tweaks and even a custom kernel. Glad this works better!

[Sithhy]

That's actually pretty cool looking on the Win 2. Now, connect a monitor + peripherals to it & you'll have a portable computer *:D*

[ofoofo]

Thanks for testing, pretty cool to see it working so close to perfect already.

[larrylangy]

You finally did it, thanks a lot... It's great now you can sell your prototype !!!

[exodous]

Hmm, this gets me more excited for this. I've used Linux as my main OS for a while now. The touch screen not working doesn't bug me that much as long as the nub works accurately as as a mouse.

[lulwutdafuq]

Thanks for all the videos you've been putting out.

[fervidoctor]

Maybe you should test emulators (and games) directly on Linux? One big movie ;)

[vpxc]

How's the power consumption under Linux? Can you still run it at 2W and play games?

If you could get power consumption levels (measure with `powertop`) for desktop usage, that would be awesome, too.

[joanthedark]

Hello The Phawx, have you tried installing Windows 7 on it? If not, do you think it's possible? Thank you in advance!

[DrIEviL]

thank you so much for your time discover this wonderful device 👍🏻

[PashaDefragzor]

Cool. Looks better than N900. Take my money

[voidwalkingcat]

lol. you literally try almost everything on the device. GPD would think that It was worth providing a prototype machine to you. thanks for all the videos.

[LoneTech]

How about suspend (and relatedly lid close and power button detection), microSD slot, DisplayPort over type C (with hotplug), and Power Delivery fast charging? Ability to run USB Gadget (acting as a device rather than host) would be nice too.

[neurobioboy]

It runs linux... this is fantastic news!!

[redgeoblaze]

I think I'm going to try this with a tiling window manager like i3.
I could set up steam in auto-start, and make a steam-input profile to put keybinds to all of the necessary keybinds.

[CoffeeCodeD]

Wait...ik this situation pointless but...what if I were to install Remix OS on there and use as a basically more powerful *GPD XD+*

[samsoulee]

Damn !!!! that thing is 10x better than any portable console !

[LyndanTylor]

I'm really interested to see how SteamDeckOS will be on this device