Arch Linux (Manjaro) on Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 4K

I followed this guide primarily

Then filled in the rest by frantic Google searching

I had issues with audio, turning keyboard backlight on, the lid close suspend doesn't work for me. Currently suspend eg. by $systemctl suspend doesn't seem to actually go into suspend (drains power fast still) eg. 18% to 11% in 45mins. I need to test the KDE sleep/suspend.

I just noticed it doesn't have swap (waiting for vide to process HD) so I'm going to add that. I'm not sure if I want hibernate, since you have to use 11GB for swap in that case. I could do it... not sure if I need hibernate though.

I'm gonna figure that out.

Taking it apart is not too bad, it is just hard to get started (pop an area open).

I really like this laptop's build. The screendoor/grid thing I mention is not as noticeable on dark backgrounds so I'm using dark theme.

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Just built my cross-platform-app with Electron/using it on this computer nice

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I ended up selling this laptop since it does not have enough hardware resources eg. RAM for my needs. Specifically with Manjaro it would randomly close apps eg. browser or VS code, maybe it's crashing but anyway between that and the blurry text due to scaling... I am planning to go back to a Surface Book (3) with a drawing pen.

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Is 4K worth it on a 13" display? This is questionable... I thought I would be able to "see more" eg. small stuff/still readable. But I still try to have the sizes the same eg. a letter is around 0.25" tall. The scaling problems is the thing that's not great.
I would like a little more than 1080P but I don't know about 4K.

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so far sleep is not working right. wakes itself up, strangely when the lid is closed, so looking into that
thankfully I found a fix I opened an issue (for note taking) there but it's ACPI related fix here:
"instantaneous wakeups from suspend" I'm on kernel 6.3 at this time
In suspend battery loss is 4-5% per 2 hours

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Headphone jack is not working, using bluetooth, not trying to debug it right now

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regarding window scaling, need to install plasma-wayland-session, then if you connect to an external monitor say 4K, the scaling I'm using is:
external monitor: 100%
chromebook: 175%

it is important to check the legacy x11 application "Scaled by the system" box, this fixes Chromium for example
the 150-175% scaling on chromebook does make text look blurrier there (looking at VSC, you can scale up text there and menu though) to find a good balance
but windows are too small if you do 100% scale,

When switching between x11/wayland you need to re-disable the instantaneous wakeups from suspend thing mentioned in another comment