Project Switchroot announced about readiness assemblies Ubuntu 24.04, designed for downloads on game consoles Nintendo Switch based on SoC Tegra X1 (Switch 2017, Switch 2019, Switch Lite and Switch OLED). In addition to Ubuntu, the Switchroot project also provides builds of Fedora 39, Lakka 5.0 and LineageOS 18.1 for download on the Nintendo Switch. Loading is done from an SD card using a bootloader hekate. Additional components used to download spread licensed under Apache 2.0.
Of the graphical interfaces, KDE Plasma and Unity are supported (builds with GNOME are delayed due to problems with productivity And touch screens. Scripts can be used to install additional programs L4T-Megascriptrepository
Pi-Apps (about 200 programs) or packages in Flatpak format. To update the distribution, the standard APT package manager is used.
Among the supported features noted pairing with Nintendo Switch Pro, GameCube, Dualshock 4, X-Box One and Joy-Con controllers, overclocking CPU, GPU and memory, support for USB-C, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DisplayPort/HDMI, audio, Touchscreen, eMMC/ SD, GPU Tegra (drivers for Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGLES, EGL, CUDA), hardware acceleration of video decoding (in SMPV Player, ffmpeg, mpv and chromium-browser), deep sleep mode, light sensor. NFC and infrared (IR) are not supported.
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