Using the developer beta and my phone runs quite hot. Of course, it’s a beta so they’ll probably reduce the effects to make it less of drain on performance and battery life. There is a reduce transparency toggle which does help a bit, esp. for readability. Hopefully when iOS 26 is released there’s an obvious option to reduce transparency.

My opinion on the “liquid glass” is mixed. Some parts look pretty cool. The apps (Mail, Photos, etc.) use it quite well, with only some parts are transparent making readability a bit better. I really like the change to the search bars being at the bottom, makes the phone more one-handable. Safari doesn’t look too good in my opinion, the glass effects are a bit much. The camera app just hid all the buttons, which is a bit annoying. You can have it show flash and live photos toggles in settings, which is good.

The lock screen effect with the “3d” photos is very cool, but the phone runs extra hot when it’s enabled so I turned that off. The glassy clock is pretty cool and there’s the option to make it normal again if you select “solid”. Swiping up from the lock screen makes a weird glass effect with the edges distorted and lots of rainbow fringing, which looks a bit odd. When you swipe down you can see the home screen app icons until it’s all the way down, then they all pop out of existence and the background is replaced. Bit jarring. Similar effect with swiping up, background changes with no transition, but the apps appear in an animation this time. Weird. I’m assuming this is probably a bug with the beta, at least I hope it is…

Onto the home screen. I think the “liquid glass” themes make the tinted icons look a bit better than just colour on black, I like that bit of customisability. I still do not get the “clear” icons, it quite literally is transparent and you can barely differentiate the icons. You can always swap it to the default, but there is still some annoying glass effects on app icons where it clearly isn’t natively built (I’m guessing the glass effects is applied to all icons automatically incl. third party apps, but it doesn’t look too great with some of them). The app folders look terrible though and the reflection/refraction is really distracting. The pop ups when you select text is especially annoying, popping up a huge bubble. I’ll need some time to get used to that vs just clicking right to share, translate, etc. The control center is not very nice to look at but it works fine.

Overall, in places where it’s used tastefully (in a lot of Apple’s apps, for instance) it works quite well if a bit distracting. I like the lock screen and home screen customisation and the ability to change it to “solid”. The glass effects are still quite distracting though. The reduce transparency toggle does help a bit with readability, but it’s annoying that it’s buried deep in accessibility settings. Not very accessible at all. The lock screen 3d effect is cool but is a bit subtle, and it makes the phone uncomfortably hot. There are still plenty of bugs, but that’ll hopefully be fixed in the public release. I like the option for the tinted icons but do not get the clear icons. Camera app isn’t too functional, just hiding everything isn’t better than before! The iOS 26 beta is quite fun, if very buggy, and the liquid glass works in some places but doesn’t work in all places.

I recently installed Fedora on my own 2-in-1 flippy laptop, and it works well. The screen rotates when I rotate the device, touchscreen works, and the stylus works as well.

Using the terminal to install programs is much faster than both the Microsoft and GNOME store!

looks pretty cool, I might try it out :D

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Aside from this issue, Fedora has been great! Everything works as expected, UI is fast and snappy, and somehow the file system seems to be a bit faster too (read/write speeds are more consistent)

maybe

I have thought it might be because dual booting makes the drivers confused or soemrhing

one thing I’ll say, Fedora installed really quickly!

I’ve backed everything up to both the cloud and an SD card, now I’m installing Fedora Workstation!

ah ok cool :D

I want a more stable distro, so I’m not considering the rolling release options (like manjaro and EndeavourOS). I’ve also heard that not many people like Ubuntu because of snaps, why is that?

edit: are rolling release distros stable enough (e.g. will it randomly crash/have weird issues?) and is it possible/easy to roll back to a previous version if there’s a breaking update

I wasn’t too familiar with Linux so didn’t know that you’re able to just change out the DE really easily on any distro.

I’m probably not going to have two DEs permanently installed together, I am hoping to make it easier to swap between the two to see which I prefer. Once I decide which one I like using I’ll likely uninstall the other

Nice, just learnt that pCloud also offers a Linux app! :D

I’ve decided to switch since nearly all the programs I use are either cross-platform (e.g. Inkscape) or have good Linux alternatives (e.g. Okular rather than SumatraPDF). The only hiccups I might get would be games, but I only really play a few retro games w/ emulators and just a couple games (the latter of which I’ve checked are all supported by Proton). Also, if I do run into issues with games, I can always just partition like 100GB for Windows and the rest for my distro of choice.

Fedora. I thunk my device might not be supported, or maybe there’s some software I need to install to make it work. Not a huge deal though.

I think it might not be supported. My device is an Asus Zenbook 14 Flip so might not be supported compared to something like a lenovo yoga or the tuxedo flip.

Ahh that’s why. Okay gotcha that makes sense. If I do switch, I’ll probably test both a bit more to see which I like using the best. I just booted the live usb and played around for a bit, testing things like touchscreen support and auto-rotate

also one annoying thing is that normally on windows, since my laptop is one of those flexy 2-in-1s, it auto-rotates depending on how you put it (like “tent mode” or “book mode”). On both KDE Plasma and GNOME, it doesn’t work. I guess my specific device isn’t supported? I can live with that though, I can rotate the screen manually and don’t realistically rotate the screen all too often.