Let me also add a few cents too
We have an alternative suspending process and daemon, which preserves battery better than the stock one. There is also a whole subsystem to make running apps easier and faster to port, for example the rssguard port I made doesn't have any suspend support, yet it works, it's managed externally.
Further more, I fixed many flaws of the nia A from the stock OS:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/commen...mment/kt08f8n/
Also, I added support for USB keyboard, mouse and audio to Quill OS, you can find them by stalking my github
I could talk and talk what special features we added and personally used (One more: I modified the charging current from software to be better suited for using USB devices) which only show that Quill OS point was and is being a hackable platform, which was also stable to use with those hacks (No, nickel randomly made factory resets for me when trying to use koreader, it also made koreader slower over time - I tried to fix it before spending a year developing Quill OS, so no, it's was not a good experience for me, don't argue about it
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So no, it's not a runtime, it's mostly not the runtime, the runtime is the worst part of it, our reader sucks, it's the base and backend which made it special, hackable, usable
As for me, Yes, I'm pissed, I don't plan to go back to the project soon, I started to focus on a firmware for the Watchy:
https://github.com/Szybet/InkWatchy and my hardware fork of it:
https://github.com/Szybet/Yatchy