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Old 07-19-2025, 08:14 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan View Post
I think the main barrier is finding somebody interested enough in this to invest time in tinkering...

Yes, if you like tinkering on Linux, then it is fun.

Secondly, it is amusing to see a Linux desktop app on your Kobo.

Then, there are a few apps that work without much tweaking, like gtans and opera mini.

Then supposedly you have opened your device up to a whole repository of apps (and toolkits), but in practice, you have to reconfigure them, or even change parameters in the source code, and even then cannot get acceptable performance.
Like I wanted to compile a javascript browser in Nim but the compiler gobbled all the RAM!

But you can get _some_ to work, and that is worth it for someone who wants a cheap eink Linux PDA.
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