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NixOS

NixOS for Fydetab Duo - a community port based on flakes.

NixOS running natively on the Fydetab Duo, via fyde-nix — a nix flake maintained by @skifli. It is built on a vendor 6.12 kernel and by default ships labwc + ReGreet as the desktop, with the final goal of feature parity with FydeOS.

Preview

✨ What works​

  • 🎮 GPU acceleration via Panthor + Mesa.
  • đŸ“ļ Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth (AP6275P / BCM4362A2).
  • đŸ–Ĩī¸ Touchscreen, stylus, auto-rotate and hall sensor (lid-close suspends).
  • 💤 Deep suspend/resume, including from the lid.
  • đŸ“ē USB-C DisplayPort altmode.
  • 🔊 Audio (ES8388 + PipeWire), microphone and 5 MP camera.
  • 🛰ī¸ LTE modem (Quectel EM05-G) and đŸ“Ļ NPU (RK3588S, 6 TOPS).
  • 🔧 Modular NixOS modules - cherry-pick only what you need, and a Cachix cache so rebuilds take on average under a minute.

Not working​

  • Fingerprint reader (a longer project but one of the long term goals).

đŸ“Ĩ Download​

Images are released on the fyde-nix GitHub Releases page as fydetab-duo-nixos.img.zst parts. Combine them, decompress with zstd, then flash:

cat fydetab-duo-nixos.img.zst.part-a* > fydetab-duo-nixos.img.zst # Combines all parts into one file
zstd -d fydetab-duo-nixos.img.zst # Decompresses the image

💾 Installation​

important

fyde-nix uses the original U-Boot, not UEFI boot. If you're coming from an Arch-based image (which uses UEFI), re-flash the original FydeOS first - then install fresh.

  • microSD: sudo dd if=fydetab-duo-nixos.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync status=progress, insert and boot.
  • eMMC: from the live system, run fydetab-install-to-emmc and accept the prompts, or flash over USB with rkdeveloptool following the official Flashing guide documentation.

The default login is user / fydetab. Extra tools bundled with the image include fydetab-update and fydetab-snapshot for rolling back after a bad update.

🔗 Links​

For more in-depth and up-to-date information please see the following links:

caution

fyde-nix is an independent project under the MIT license and is not endorsed by Fyde Innovations.

note

If you encounter any issues with the build, feel free to open an issue.