What about the new version of HoloOS?
My understanding is that this is not very well maintained. ChimeraOS predates the Steam Deck and has a long history of being maintained.
Also “HoloOS” is the official Steam Deck distro, you’re referring to “HoloISO”.
Read the article, it was maintained recently because the author was working on something even closer to HoloOS/SteamOS
The only thing I see in the article is that they’re moving to an immutable distro. Nothing to indicate it will be better-maintained in the future. This project has gone 6+ months without updates in the past.
This is amazing!!!
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@Steven_Bergeron_Meza If you go this route, We (Bazzite) actually ship an image specifically for this hardware, we made it when the last Framework handheld materialized.
If you have any issues with it at all, join the Universal Blue discord and we’ll be happy to work with you, we want this to be a great experience for anyone who goes through with a mod this cool.
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cool work. how do you manage heat dissipation to prevent thermal runaway on the battery?
this is my biggest fear with sandwiching the battery like and leading me to use a GPD Pocket mainboard + battery (which go side-by-side within a 7" chassis) for a custom mini-laptop/deck project design.
i guess the battery goes between the backlit display and the motherboard so that the fan can pull air from the back? neither of your videos show the motherboard and battery going in 
If you battery is hot enough for external temperature related runaway, the whole device has been too hot to touch for a while.
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I plan on making a step by step guide for assembly once I iron out a few kinks- but in short, the piece that the mainboard screws into separates the mainboard from the battery. It’s about 1.5mm thick. The mainboard gets sufficiently cooled, as long as you don’t block the air flow intake/vent 
. I’ve never had the mainboard on its own become hot though, even while running games the board is just well cooled and the battery is sufficiently isolated from the mainboard that heat doesn’t transfer through.
The only heat “problem” is the screens controller board I’m using atm. It gets far warmer than the framework mainboard. It uses the screen as a heat sink but it’s not ideal 
Here’s a screenshot from my video where you can find the piece that separates the mainboard from the battery (it’s on the top half of the screen)
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Ooh how interesting! I’ll make sure to take a look at that
cheers mate, good work!
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Hi! This is very cool. You say it is open source, but I don’t see any open source licenses in your repository. Making this open source would be amazing, but without a compatible license, copyright is still “all rights reserved,” even if the source files are available for people to see.
Please either add a compatible license (CC-BY-SA is a good option, but licenses that restrict commercial use such as CC-BY-SA-NC are not open source) or remove references to “open source” if you can. Labeling projects as “open source” that are not licensed with an OSI open source definition compatible license muddy the waters.
Thanks!
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Thank you for letting me know, it’s all been taken care of now.
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Thanks so much!
Hi, how well does the wisecoco display hold up, is the touch layer laminated or is it air gapped from the display? I’ve been considering one of their bigger displays for my tablet project.
I’ve heard their displays are pretty good, but this one, I am not a fan. It’s not lamainated, requires two usb ports (non compliant usb-c power for the display + micro usb-data for the digitizer). It also heats up quite a bit. I’m way more worried for the displays’ heat than the main boards heat.
My next big attempt at this project is finding a 7 inch 40min edp screen so I can avoid using extra ports, so if you ever find one let me know (:
Hmm, I havent seen any 7 inch, but the elitepad 1000 g2 is 10 inch edp screen with touch, pinout is in my post here: Framework tablet build for Embedded development - #18 by Jakub_Tomes
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@Steven_Bergeron_Meza Hey. This is luz from PCBWay. Also left a message on your thingiverse. Trying to reach out discussing the chance working with you. Is there a way to keep up the conversation:D
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DMed!
I’m excited to see the future revisions through this collab
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