Crimson Experience

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I think this was the one I reflashed, but then the update from atp or the pureos store will break the system if I reboot. During the reboot, it is a black screen. If I don’t update, it is usable to some degree.

https://oper.io/?p=librem5:crimson-daily-driver

I followed this article since the author keeps updating it. He found two libraries break the os after updating the system using apt update. I used his scripts, after updating it becomes the os: Landing, it can reboot but most of the softwares becomes usable. Did you guys do the system update after flashing to the crimson? Thanks.

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Yes, but breakage after updating is expected now due to recent ongoing Crimson development.

So if we want to use crimson, we don’t update the system for now?

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Correct, alternatively you can use Mobian (stable):

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Thanks. Is it the same step as we flash the Crimson via the L5 flash script? Or I might need to read the Mobian doc I guess.

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Entirely different steps, which include using Jumpdrive.

Got it. I will stay with pmos and pureos for now. Might test on crimson weekly I guess. Thanks.

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Can someone please help me i just updated my phone. And now i can pass the disk encryption screen. It wont even let me input the password at all. Also i have been stuck on benzytium for 2 years. How do i upgrade to crimson?

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Create a separate topic in the Librem 5 category.

has anyone tried this one yet? difference between the crimson image that we flashed from the landing? this one can now officially flash from the librem 5 flash script for crimson.

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You can edit /etc/apt/sources.list before doing anything on your fresh crimson install.

#deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos landing main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson-security main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson-updates main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson-updates-proposed main

run:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

and reboot it works and you stay on crimson.

Next, if you want to go for landing:
With that new post: Crimson Daily Driver Part 3 (the author doesn’t recommend that)

  1. uncomment landing in sources.list
  2. sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dri=22.3.6-1+deb12u1 libseat1=0.7.0-6
  3. sudo apt-mark hold libseat1 libgl1-mesa-dri
  4. check with apt-mark showhold
  5. apt upgrade

I exclude landing after this again until Librem5: Crimson Daily Driver updates his experience.
And there is also an apt-mark unhold command for the future (or after removing landing again).

But with landing you end up at dawn instead of crimson.

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Nice you did it!

I love crimson right now. The apps are fast and up to date. The power last longer. I use suspend after X seconds and suspend on purpose by Mobil-Settings/Shutdown-Button.

Good job on everyone who take progress on Apps and Gnome for Mobile.

Love it, its like a howl new device. Just like Linux and open source!

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Why did you never use it on Byzantium?

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I found a post where it is claimed that display scaling on 100% instead of 200% uses less system resources.

Can you confirm or deny?

I only use Librem 5 with that setting and big font.
It feels better, but I don’t know if there is a real difference.

Also firefox and other apps are somehow better to use for me.

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No, it’s not true. Fractional scales such as 150% may consume more resources than integer ones when using apps that don’t support them natively, but there won’t be any significant difference between 100% and 200% unless there’s some nasty bug hiding somewhere :wink:

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I tried this (edited all sources lines to dawn) but dist-upgrade didn’t like it. Some kind of dependency issue:

librem5-gnome : Depends: gnome-contacts but it is not going to be installed

just a plain upgrade did want to upgrade a lot of packages, but it also held back a lot of packages, of which were all the important ones (phosh, gnome, calls, chatty,…) so I didn’t see the point in doing it.
I changed back to crimson for the time being until it’s possible to cleanly dist-upgrade to landing (dawn).

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I can confirm. I used to use 150% because I thought it was a happy medium between 200% and 100% but it was sluggish, so I went to 100% and muddled around with font scales and such and was much happier for it. 200% was just to large, and I’m still in denial about my ageing eyesight.

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I done but the whole energy consumption was like 30 % more energy lost on Byzantium. Now i use a Dark Theme too, this may safe energy. It feels like the wake up is faster and that the phone charge faster.

But i am not sure about charging. Sometimes it feels like i have Dirt in my USB-C Port and the Power Connection fit not well. I like to turn the Plug about 180° and it charge faster. Sometimes i have just a red blinking light without any charging. Especially if the Percent is ±1% of the Warning Level, in that case the Phone wake up every Second. I turn off the Phone to charge it then.

Using https://flathub.org/ for my known working apps works fine too, with just Tuba, Dino, Calculator Podcast and Clocks. I have no disk space issue right now i have 21 GB free. I installed the Flatpaks by download the flatpak file from there, and open it in Gnome Files, which started the Pureos Store.

And by the Way: I removed clocks in PureOS Store and install the Flatpak Clocks and reboot and now have 48.0 Clocks working. Some gtk4 effects feel a bit laggy like if the dbus-proxy did not match the Version on a usual linux desktop with an mixed gnome environment. But i have time.

Edit: Ok: Flatpak Gnome 48 Clocks still, did not wake up the Phone too. Checked it right now. The Alarm beeps one minute to late, after i wake the phone up with the power button.

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