L4T Ubuntu - A fully featured linux on your switch

OverkillLabs · Jun 22, 2019

Can natively ported from Windows to Linux games work on L4T or they won't run at all?

ZachyCatGames · Jun 22, 2019

OverkillLabs said:
Can natively ported from Windows to Linux games work on L4T or they won't run at all?

If they support aarch64, yea sure. But most games don't

enderer · Jun 22, 2019

Gavin_Darkglider said:
once I finished Gentoo

are you planning to update Gentoo for switch?

your Gentoo thread says it will not be updated.

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 23, 2019

enderer said:
are you planning to update Gentoo for switch?

your Gentoo thread says it will not be updated.

This is gentoo L4T. I dont think that I will be able to get kodi to play netflix, or amazon in this build, due to the DRM libraries. Best bet there is to wait on anbox, or android for this. This is more of a port of the tegra libraries into gentoo, so you have a better more updated option than ubuntu.

OverkillLabs · Jun 24, 2019

How do I change to a more lighweight interface so L4T has better performance and can we put L4T on an SSD?

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 24, 2019

OverkillLabs said:
How do I change to a more lighweight interface so L4T has better performance and can we put L4T on an SSD?

You would need to install a light weight interface, and choose it from the login screen. The screen rotation, and touchscreen calibration needs to be changed as well. As for putting l4t on an ssd drive, While you could do that, it wouldnt be a great idea, in the sense you would be tethered to the dock at all times. it is better to put the OS on the sdcard, and stuff like music, and roms and stuff like that on an external SSD. Just my thoughts.

OverkillLabs · Jun 24, 2019

Gavin_Darkglider said:
You would need to install a light weight interface, and choose it from the login screen. The screen rotation, and touchscreen calibration needs to be changed as well. As for putting l4t on an ssd drive, While you could do that, it wouldnt be a great idea, in the sense you would be tethered to the dock at all times. it is better to put the OS on the sdcard, and stuff like music, and roms and stuff like that on an external SSD. Just my thoughts.

I already use L4T exclusively with the dock and a keyboard and mouse so touch controls and being tethered is not a problem for me.

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 24, 2019

in that case, you would put the second partition on the sd card, and you need to change the boot.scr(Needs to be compiled with mkimage from uboot sources) file for uboot to point at the external ssd, an you would also need to modify fstab to also point at the external ssd partition.

Trekker · Jun 24, 2019

For some reason Youtube playback is not smooth it's stuttering alot. Does anyone have a fix for this?

hippy dave · Jun 24, 2019

Do usb adapters for wireless headphones, the kind designed for Switch/Horizon, work on l4t linux, and more importantly do they work on Android? Anyone tried?

e: I just remembered you can do bluetooth audio straight from the Switch in linux, duh. Does that work in android currently, or in future?

stick267 · Jun 24, 2019

hippy dave said:
Do usb adapters for wireless headphones, the kind designed for Switch/Horizon, work on l4t linux, and more importantly do they work on Android? Anyone tried?

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e: I just remembered you can do bluetooth audio straight from the Switch in linux, duh. Does that work in android currently, or in future?

Yeah Bluetooth headphones work just fine in L4T Ubuntu, I use my Apple AirPods all the time with it. I would assume they work in Android as well.

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 24, 2019

Trekker said:
For some reason Youtube playback is not smooth it's stuttering alot. Does anyone have a fix for this?

I use kodi for that, it does alright.

Imancol · Jun 24, 2019

This shows that the virtual console of Gamecube and Wii are possible in Switch?

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Is there a lighter version of L4T ubuntu that does not occupy more than 4GB?

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 24, 2019

Ghost92 said:
This shows that the virtual console of Gamecube and Wii are possible in Switch?

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Is there a lighter version of L4T ubuntu that does not occupy more than 4GB?

Not currently, but you could make one, or even strip the build that is already there.

globalc · Jun 24, 2019

OverkillLabs said:
I already use L4T exclusively with the dock and a keyboard and mouse so touch controls and being tethered is not a problem for me.

Do you expect faster loading? Also with the sdcard, this gets loaded and then probably stays cached in your RAM. You could reboot L4T, then start everything you are using, and look at the output of 'free' to understand how much data gets loaded from the card. Loading that might then improve from 30 or 60MB/sec to SSD speeds. Like Gavin_Darkglider, I think that makes more sense for data than the OS.

As for 'lightweight WM', makes me actually curious, will compare RAM consumption of a freshly booted L4T with the Fedora30/LXDE which I am using.

OverkillLabs · Jun 24, 2019

globalc said:
Do you expect faster loading? Also with the sdcard, this gets loaded and then probably stays cached in your RAM. You could reboot L4T, then start everything you are using, and look at the output of 'free' to understand how much data gets loaded from the card. Loading that might then improve from 30 or 60MB/sec to SSD speeds. Like Gavin_Darkglider, I think that makes more sense for data than the OS.

As for 'lightweight WM', makes me actually curious, will compare RAM consumption of a freshly booted L4T with the Fedora30/LXDE which I am using.

Can you keep me posted when you compare them so I know which one uses less RAM so I can switch to that

globalc · Jun 24, 2019

OverkillLabs said:
Can you keep me posted when you compare them so I know which one uses less RAM so I can switch to that

Just compared. L4T boots for me up in 30sec until a usable grapical screen, and in that state 814MB are consumed:

Code:

chris@switch:~$ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3483         841        2213          11         429        2372
Swap:             0           0           0
chris@switch:~$

My Fedora30 build with LXDE takes 43sec to load, and after that 512MB are consumed:

Code:

[root@switch ~]# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3483         512        2270           6         701        2692
Swap:             0           0           0
[root@switch ~]#

My build is not nicely available as image though, one has to follow bootstrap instructions. Also some 3D for example supertuxkart does not start, L4T is probably more compatible. This shows though the potential, is someone is after 300MB, then playing with smaller window managers on L4T might make sense.

jmirco64 · Jun 25, 2019

Hello, can the console ban me for connecting to the internet?

Mouser X · Jun 25, 2019

jmirco64 said:
Hello, can the console ban me for connecting to the internet?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: How? L4T has no access to internal storage, and no access to Horizon. Even if it connected to Nintendo's servers, it's recognised as a Linux tablet/laptop. There's almost no way Nintendo can even figure out what you're doing. And the theoretical methods that

jmirco64 · Jun 25, 2019

Mouser X said:
Short answer: No.

Long answer: How? L4T has no access to internal storage, and no access to Horizon. Even if it connected to Nintendo's servers, it's recognised as a Linux tablet/laptop. There's almost no way Nintendo can even figure out what you're doing. And the theoretical methods that

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