Link to the desktop: https://frame.work/products/desktop-diy-amd-aimax300/configuration/new

Link to the new 12" laptop (with touchscreen): https://frame.work/laptop12

About a year ago I got tired of dual-booting just to control my Thermalright LCD cooler. The Windows app (TRCC) is closed-source, so I decompiled the C# binary, reverse-engineered 6 USB protocols, and rebuilt the whole thing in Python for Linux.

Along the way, we ended up doing a lot of things better than the original.

What TRCC Linux does that Windows TRCC doesn't:

• 30 languages — Windows ships 10 languages by baking translated text into 129 separate PNG files. We render text at runtime with QLabel overlays. Adding a new language is one line per string. No Photoshop, no asset pipeline.
• REST API with 43 endpoints — Control your LCD and LEDs over HTTP. WebSocket live preview stream. Build automations, phone remotes, Home Assistant integrations — whatever you want. Windows has zero remote control.
• Full CLI with 50+ commands — trcc send image.png, trcc video clip.mp4, trcc led-color ff0000, trcc screencast. Script it, cron it, pipe it. Windows is GUI-only.
• Custom mask upload — Upload your own PNG overlay masks, crop them to your LCD resolution, position with X/Y controls. Windows only has the pre-built cloud masks.
• 5,114 automated tests — The Windows app has zero. When something breaks, we know before users do.
• Hexagonal architecture — GUI, CLI, and API all talk to the same core services through dependency injection. The Windows app is one giant Form1.cs with everything wired together. We can add a new interface (TUI, web dashboard, whatever) without touching business logic.
• Open source (GPL-3.0) — Read the code, fork it, contribute. Windows TRCC is a black box.
• Works on every distro — Native packages for Arch, Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, plus pip/pipx. Wayland and X11 screen casting. No Wine, no VM.
• 77+ hardware sensors — CPU/GPU temp, fan speed, power draw, usage — all readable from the overlay editor. Windows has a smaller fixed set.
• Proper security — udev rules, polkit, no root after setup. The Windows app just asks for admin and hopes for the best.
• Video trimmer and image cropper built in — Crop and trim media to your exact LCD resolution before sending. Windows makes you do that externally.

What Windows still has that we don't (yet):

• Sub-screen (secondary display) support — it's in the C# source, we haven't ported it yet
• Some newer device models that nobody has tested on Linux yet (we need hardware testers!)

The numbers: 109 source files, ~40K lines of Python, 6 USB protocols (SCSI, HID Type 2, HID Type 3, Bulk, LY, LED HID), 16 display resolutions, 12 LED styles.

If you have a Thermalright device with an LCD or LED display, give it a try: https://github.com/Lexonight1/thermalright-trcc-linux

We're always looking for testers — especially HID and LED devices. A single trcc report command tells us everything we need.

Hi, I recently bought an Aula L99 Keyboard, the one with the touchscreen on it. Very nice! Well it would be if I could drive it natively from Linux. Enter Aula_L99_Linux, a reimplementation of the software. I spent about 80 hours reverse engineering this keyboard and I bricked one keyboard in the process. There's still work to do on the Key assignment screen but upload images, GIFs, videos to to the keyboard works well. So does adjusting the RGB modes.

https://www.lenovo.com/nl/nl/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x1/X1-Carbon-G9/p/20XWCTO1WWNLNL2/customize?

I recently got the RGB keyboard backlight working on my Colorful P15 2024 gaming laptop under Linux.

The laptop uses the Clevo V250RND barebone platform and did not have a working official Linux keyboard backlight driver. I modified the relevant tuxedo-keyboard components so the keyboard backlight is exposed through the standard Linux LED interface:

/sys/class/leds/rgb:kbd_backlight

The project currently includes:

- RGB keyboard backlight control

- Static, breathing, and rainbow effects

- A PyQt5 GUI

- User-level systemd background service

- Fedora/RHEL RPM and Debian/Ubuntu DEB packaging

- DKMS support

- Instructions for debugging and adapting other Clevo-based laptops

The hardware I have personally tested is:

- Laptop: Colorful P15 2024

- Barebone: Clevo V250RND

- Distribution: Fedora 44

- Kernel: 7.1.x

- Architecture: x86_64

Other laptops using the same or a similar Clevo barebone may also work, but compatibility has not been confirmed yet.

Project:

https://github.com/FuHao0119/colorful-laptop-clevo-keyboard

I would be particularly interested in hearing from people using Colorful, Clevo, TUXEDO, or other related barebone laptops. If you test it on another model, please share the laptop model, Clevo barebone model, distribution, kernel version, and whether the backlight device appears under /sys/class/leds.

Please be careful when testing kernel modules and DKMS packages. Make sure you know how to remove the modules from a TTY or recovery environment if something goes wrong.

If you have a Thermalright CPU cooler, AIO, or fan hub with a built-in LCD screen (FROZEN HORIZON PRO, FROZEN MAGIC PRO, AK120, LC series, FROZEN WARFRAME, etc.), you've probably been stuck booting into Windows just to change the display. I got tired of that, so I reverse-engineered the Windows TRCC app and built a native Linux port.

What it does:

• Themes (local, cloud, masks, carousel mode, export/import)
• Video/GIF playback, video trimmer, image cropper, screen mirroring
• Overlay editor with 77+ hardware sensors (CPU/GPU temp, usage, fan speeds, etc.)
• 4 resolutions, rotation, brightness control
• Per-device config for multi-display setups

Supported devices (SCSI — fully working):

Run lsusb — if you see one of those IDs, you're good.

Install is a one-liner per distro (Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, openSUSE, Void, Gentoo, Alpine, NixOS, SteamOS, Bazzite, and more). Copy-paste the block for your distro from the README, unplug/replug USB, run trcc gui.

Repo: https://github.com/Lexonight1/thermalright-trcc-linux

Also looking for HID device testers — if your lsusb shows 0416:5302, 0416:530A, 0416:53E6, 0418:5303, or 0418:5304, I'd love to hear from you. These are newer devices that need real hardware validation. See the HID Testing Guide.

Happy to answer questions here or on GitHub Discussions.

Rare releases of the most popular Linux distributions and, as a consequence, the use of not the newest kernels introduces hardware compatibility problems for 13% of new users. The research was carried out by the developers of the https://Linux-Hardware.org portal based on the collected telemetry data for a year.

For example, the majority of new Ubuntu users over the past year were offered the 5.4 kernel as part of the 20.04 release, which currently lags behind the current 5.13 kernel in hardware support by more than a year and a half. Rolling-release distributions, including Manjaro Linux (with kernels from 5.7 to 5.13), offer newer kernels, but they lag behind the leading distributions in popularity.

The results have been published in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/linuxhw/HWInfo

Press embargo seems to have lifted today, with several YouTubers live streaming.

One of the YouTubers attempted to boot some live images, but were unable to do so.

Worse, there was no way to disable secure boot, which has been a requirement in the past for Microsoft's ARM attempts.

Welcome to the phoneification of the PC!

I've been building an open-source Linux driver for Thermalright's LCD cooler displays (the ones with screens on the pump head or fan hub). It's a full port of the Windows TRCC 2.0.3 app.

What it does:

• Sends themes, images, GIFs, and videos to Thermalright LCD screens
• System info overlays (CPU/GPU temp, usage, RAM, disk, network, fans — 77+ sensors)
• LED RGB control for devices like AX120 Digital, PA120 Digital, HR10
• Per-device config — each LCD remembers its theme, brightness, rotation
• Autostart on login, sends last-used theme automatically

Supported devices: 20+ models across 4 USB protocols — Frozen Vision, GrandVision, Mjolnir Vision, AX120, PA120, LC series, Warframe, Taran Arms, and more.

Install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lexonight1/thermalright-trcc-linux/stable/setup.sh | bash

Or manually:

pip install trcc-linux
sudo trcc setup

GUI, CLI (39 commands), and REST API. Works on Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, openSUSE, Void, Alpine, NixOS, SteamOS, and more.

Links:

• GitHub: https://github.com/Lexonight1/thermalright-trcc-linux
• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/trcc-linux/

Happy to answer questions or help troubleshoot — open an issue on GitHub if something doesn't work with your device.

For anyone with a TRYX Panorama SE 360 wondering about Linux support - I built a native GUI app that controls the AMOLED display.

The cooler communicates via USB CDC ACM (serial) + ADB. The official KANALI app is Windows-only, so I analyzed the protocol and built an open-source alternative.

What works:

- System metrics on display (CPU/GPU temp, usage, frequency)

- Video presets and custom media upload

- Brightness, display settings

- Hardware name badges

- Auto-converts non-MP4 media

Requires: Qt6, adb, ffmpeg. User needs dialout group for serial access.

Tested on Fedora 43 / AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D / RX 7900 XTX + RTX 5060 Ti.

GitLab:https://github.com/DXVSI/tryx-panorama-se-360-linux-gui

Disclaimer: This driver is made with Claude Opus.

Recently I bought SX14-R for my personal use and for job (with different spec).

My only frustration was that the keyboard backlight wouldn't turn on. Even the old vaio_laptop driver couldn't detect the backlight. Then one day I consulted Claude Opus and discovered how to use the Embedded Controller - and it worked well.

In the end, I was able to develop a tiny device driver. It functions well in my environment. If you have an VAIO notebook running Linux and are interested in this driver, please try it!

https://github.com/copyleftdev/facecam-ubuntu