03-13-2018, 02:23 PM
Hi Luke, thank you for that thread. I am also someone who want to use the rock64 board for a desktop experience. I installed already a minimal linux image with i3, hardware acceleration enabled. For this small low powered device it is good but android performs better. Do you know why?
I have also a odroid c2 board, the situation is the same.
Perhaps, android is optimized for low powered devices and stock gnu/linux like debian, ubuntu and arch linux not, they are build for desktop computers. The user space of android is optimized for mobile phones, so its fast. The user space of gnu/linux is not optimized for that.
So my idea is to use a mobile, low powered device optimized os for the rock64 and tweak the os for a desktop experience. With android it is possilbe but there you have the problem to be up to date.
There would be alternatives to android:
luneos is a webos-port, there are already images for the raspberry pi: webos-ports.org
postmarketos, it is based on alpine linux: postmarketos.org
alpine linux has already arm64 support and there are builds for raspberry pi, so perhaps alpine linux and postmarketos could be a real option. But for that the kernel has to be compiled to have hardware acceleration, or? I have not the experience to port alpine linux/postmarketos to the rock64, but perhaps someone has interests to do so ... ?
Here from the alpine linux website:
"Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox. This makes it smaller and more resource efficient than traditional GNU/Linux distributions."
I have also a odroid c2 board, the situation is the same.
Perhaps, android is optimized for low powered devices and stock gnu/linux like debian, ubuntu and arch linux not, they are build for desktop computers. The user space of android is optimized for mobile phones, so its fast. The user space of gnu/linux is not optimized for that.
So my idea is to use a mobile, low powered device optimized os for the rock64 and tweak the os for a desktop experience. With android it is possilbe but there you have the problem to be up to date.
There would be alternatives to android:
luneos is a webos-port, there are already images for the raspberry pi: webos-ports.org
postmarketos, it is based on alpine linux: postmarketos.org
alpine linux has already arm64 support and there are builds for raspberry pi, so perhaps alpine linux and postmarketos could be a real option. But for that the kernel has to be compiled to have hardware acceleration, or? I have not the experience to port alpine linux/postmarketos to the rock64, but perhaps someone has interests to do so ... ?
Here from the alpine linux website:
"Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox. This makes it smaller and more resource efficient than traditional GNU/Linux distributions."