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Samjohnston98

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  1. I'm a college student and I just upgraded from a surface pro to a Razer blade and the only thing I miss is the ability to take notes with a pen and store them on one note (it's a lot more helpful than you may think). I've seen videos of people taking old lcd screens and sticking a universal driver on the back of old laptop LCDs but they're not even capacitive touch( https://youtu.be/CfirQC99xPc ). I would like to take this a step further and make a DIY usb display with active pen support like Wacom or N-Trig. I tried googling the DS-D5000 A1 & DS-A5048 B2 (5th generation) which are the latest N-Trig chips found in the the surface book and pro devices, but I only got a bunch of unsafe and sketchy Chinese websites. What I'm trying to figure out is how the pen data is interfaced with the computer. Is it combined with the displays analog data? Is it a separate digital data line? Is the the data proprietary and unusable outside the prefabricated design on a motherboard? I really want to figure out if there's a way for window to see the display on the usb and use the standard drivers it would use if the display were directly connected to the motherboard. After watching Linus' recent video with the portable displays, if this is feasible even with the most intensive designing I would find a product like this very useful because plugging this kind of display into my phone and annotate pdfs at a small desk using Samsung dex and a pen would be a game changer. Especially when I don't need another $600 tablet. This is the first forum post I've ever made, any help would be appreciated. This idea or field seems pretty shallow at this time, or I just have no idea where to look. Thanks.
  2. Heard Google might be bringing Linux support to Chrome OS. Though that was supposedly announced in 2018, there have already been official workarounds that have been used for a while. Crouton is essentially a VM that runs in Chrome OS, it may work if you have the speed and space for it. https://www.linux.com/learn/how-easily-install-Ubuntu-Chromebook-crouton Google's official version of this is still just a rumor but apparently a work in progress. https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/google-officially-unveils-project-crostini-linux-apps-on-chrome-os/ I don't have any experience with this solution personally I was just doing some research for myself and came across this post. If it works let me know! source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS#Linux_Apps
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