

* plasma-desktop: (X11/Wayland) KDE Desktop Environment (works well with tablets) * plasma-bigscreen: (Wayland) 10-feet variant of Plasma, made for big screen TVs * phosh: (Wayland) Mobile UI developed for the Librem 5 (works only with numeric passwords!) * mate: (X11) MATE Desktop Environment, fork of GNOME2 (stylus recommended) * lxqt: (X11) Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment (stylus recommended) * kodi: (Wayland) 10-foot UI useful on TV's * i3wm: (X11) Tiling WM (keyboard required) * gnome-mobile: (Wayland) Gnome Shell patched to adapt better to phones (Experimental) * glacier: (Wayland) Open-source alternative to the SailfishOS UI * fbkeyboard: Plain framebuffer console with touchscreen keyboard support * asteroid: (Wayland) Smartwatch UI from AsteroidOS Please read the corresponding user interface article for information about how usable each interface is and keep in mind that most of them are not that usable yet. Weston and XFCE4 are usable on devices which do not have hardware 3D acceleration (most of them!), the others are notably slowed down. Check your device's wiki page for interfaces that are known to be working with your device. If you're unsure, find your device in the list here.Ĭarefully choose the user interface you would like to install. Type in the vendor and code-name of your device at the prompt. Multiple chroots (native, device arch, device rootfs) will be created in there. Notably unsupported are: eCryptFS, encfs, fat, ntfs, nfs shares, tmpvs, and VirtualBox shared folders. Make sure that the location has a few GB of space available, and that it is a relatively standard Linux filesystem (one that supports device nodes and symbolic links). Make sure that when you are asked for the username, you specify something different from root as this will cause issues and make you unable to log in.
#Linux rom for tf101 update
If you already had pmbootstrap installed make sure that it is updated to the latest version and update your files, to get the newest patches:
#Linux rom for tf101 install
Install pmbootstrap, our lightweight postmarketOS development and installation tool. TL DR: do your research, don't have important data on your device. For details, have a look at your device-specific wiki page. There is a risk of hard-bricking your device, meaning it may be impossible to recover without specialist tools.įortunately, most Android-based devices are fairly foolproof even if your flashed images don't boot, you can still access the flashing mode and fix the mistakes. You will lose all data and it might not be possible to restore the original operating system. Check the device-specific wiki page for more details.īeware that by following these instructions, you will overwrite everything that is currently on your device. Some devices will come with a locked bootloader, in such cases you will need to unlock it before proceeding.The host operating system needs to run Linux 3.17 or newer (first kernel with getrandom syscall).
#Linux rom for tf101 windows
Or you can use Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) (You will need this USB setup guide). If you don't have Linux installed, please set up a virtual machine with VirtualBox first.
