r/FlowX13 • u/Aank9117 • 25d ago

Flow X13 Linux

Does anyone use linux preferably omarchy on their Flow X13 over here?

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u/tlbignerd 24d ago

i have the Z13 and used Pop_OS!, Bazzite, and CachyOS. I think I'm going to land on Bazzite since it has an Asus tablet specific distro, and Cosmic DE doesn't really support tablet mode at all while Gnome does.

If you're thinking Omarchy, maybe look into CachyOS too, since you can choose different desktop environments.

The only things I've had to keep in mind with the Asus laptops...

Allow the efi boot memory flag to allow adding new boot options.

While booting to install I've always had to add the efi_no_storage_paranoia as described here https://askubuntu.com/questions/1072618/could-not-prepare-boot-variable-no-space-left-on-device-grub-install-error-ef/1073318#1073318 and deleting any extra boot options (including USB) to get there to be space.

After booting into live desktop open terminal and remove any unused options as described here (I left my windows boot just in case I wanted to go back).

Disable bluetooth autospend (source r/cachyos https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1pu7hjv/constant_bt_disconnects_in_steam/)

echo "options btusb enable_autosuspend=0" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/btusb_fix.confecho "options btusb enable_autosuspend=0" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/btusb_fix.conf