Some questions and answers are meant for x86 systems not arm64.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

1. How to disable your GPU card with hwtuner?
2. How to enable AHCI, Virtualizations and Fix Storage? (Fix installation errors).
3. Step-by-Step Guide to Installing FydeOS on Your Hard Drive
4. FydeOS Starts Up but Fails to Recognize a Device: Here’s What to Do
5. How to set a multi-boot configuration with other systems?
6. Troubleshooting Video Playback Anomalies
7. Guide to Selecting the Right FydeOS Variant for Your PC
8. A Manual Walkthrough to Install OpenGApps on FydeOS
9. OpenGApps installation failed, what should I do?
10. With FydeOS installed in a multi-boot setup and the PC to be found exceptionally hot, what should I do?
11. Why I cannot find options to enable Linux subsystem?
12. How to Enable Widevine? (Netflix, Spotify, Disney+, etc)
13. The difference between openfyde vs fydeOS
14. FydeOS for You Subscription FAQ

FydeOS Special Releases:

• FydeOS for You: Surface Developer Edition
• Historical Releases of FydeOS for PC

• FydeOS doesn’t support the NVIDIA GPU.
• Logo stuck on installation can often be bad USB pen drive or bad USB port. (Try to switch and swap).

Turn off type: echo power_allocator > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/policy
Turn on type: echo step_wise > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/policy
Nonstop type: echo fair_share > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/policy

mount -o remount,rw /
sudo nano /etc/init/rock5-fan-control.conf
#find the line and update to fair_share

  echo fair_share > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/policy

Then press Ctrl+X, save Y  then sudo reboot and exit

To reduce the fan speed this also works:
Minimum: i2cset -y -f 2 0x18 0x8a 0x1F
Play between: i2cset -y -f 2 0x18 0x8a <0x10 to 0x64>

echo 55 | tee /sys/class/fan/trigger_temp_low
This works also to set the minimum loud spinning.

To enable bluetooth on some modules for openFyde/FydeOS:

mount -o remount,rw /
nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
-- then add these lines somewhere (at the bottom of the file is fine):
blacklist pgdrv
blacklist btusb
blacklist btrtl
blacklist btbcm
#blacklist btintel
Then press Ctrl+X, save Y  then sudo reboot and exit

crosh - Browser Ctrl Alt T, type: shell, type: sudo -i and:

sudo mount -o remount rw /
sudo passwd chronos

To activate FydeOS extras for your board check all information available here: https://fydeos.io/docs/knowledge-base/recipes/RK3588-soc-how-to-use-device-tree-overlay/
Type: ls /boot/rockchip/overlay/

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mount -o remount,rw /
sudo nano /mnt/stateful_partition/fyde/Env.txt
overlays=pwm-fan 
Then press Ctrl+X, save Y  then sudo reboot and exit

1. Obtain the necessary Windevine files for the appropriate architecture (arm64 in this case) from your preferred place/vendor. If you cannot find this, you may try this one: https://github.com/Twinaxeatk/WidevineCdm/releases/download/R114/WidevineCdm_ARM64.tar.gz
2. Uncompress the file (if necessary) and obtain the file libwidevinecdm.so.
   Move the file from the folder Downloads to Linux Files and with Linux do:
   tar -xf WidevineCdm.tar.gz
3. Navigate to “Settings” → “openFyde Settings”, and find the option to “Enable Widevine”, and choose the file libwidevinecdm.so from the uncompressed folder.
4. Reboot.

EnjOY Netflix via Chromium browser now.

#For best behaviour install nala and aptitude.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install git make python3-pip python3-apt python3-debian pandoc aptitude -y 
git clone https://gitlab.com/volian/nala.git
cd nala
sudo make install
sudo nala update && sudo nala upgrade -y
cd
#Better visual GUI better debug and auto resolution.

After this dont do sudo apt install anymore do sudo nala install instead ex: sudo nala install neofetch. The terminal behaviour will not just be pretty but it will do more tasks and correct issues as well giving you better debug feedback. Aptitude fetches for the updated dependencies and corrects the deprecated ones. (Command: sudo aptitude install neofetch).

sudo apt install wget -y
wget -qO- https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/linux_signing_key.pub | gpg --dearmor | sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/vivaldi-browser.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/vivaldi-browser.gpg arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/ stable main" | sudo dd of=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi-archive.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install vivaldi-stable -y
#sudo apt remove vivaldi-stable -y

Install Vivaldi for Geforce Now and (Widevine DRM for Netflix couldn’t make it work if someone can please let me know.).

Vivaldi browser installation

1. Download Vivaldi .deb here https://vivaldi.com/download/archive/?platform=linux
2. Open GDebi and install your specific Vivaldi browser

Create a desktop launcher (‘Needed’ for GeForce Now and Widevine)

• Info: This allows you to add browser start up lines to provide better performance. To let pages know you are at the latest version.
• Command:
  /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Same as openFyde Chromium for testing (Might improve performance- optional)

/usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox --edge-touch-filtering --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --platform-disallows-chromeos-direct-video-decoder --enable-webgl-image-chromium --enable-features=Pepper3DImageChromium,UmaStorageDimensions,Crostini,CrostiniGpuSupport,SmartDim --num-raster-threads=2 --gpu-sandbox-failures-fatal=no --passive-listeners-default=true --enable-logging --log-level=1 --use-cras --enable-wayland-server --system-developer-mode --disable-mojo-broker --ash-use-cros-mojo-service-manager --cros-healthd-uses-service-manager --allow-os-install --login-profile=user --has-chromeos-keyboard --enable-touchview --disable-explicit-dma-fences --guest-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/guest_large.jpg --guest-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/guest_small.jpg --child-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/child_large.jpg --child-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/child_small.jpg --default-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/default_large.jpg --default-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/default_small.jpg --enable-consumer-kiosk --device-help-content-id=rock5b-openfyde --ozone-nnpalm-properties={} --arc-availability=installed --enterprise-enrollment-initial-modulus=15 --enterprise-enrollment-modulus-limit=19 --enable-crashpad --ml_service=enabled --ondevice_handwriting=use_rootfs --ondevice_document_scanner=use_rootfs --arc-start-mode=always-start-with-no-play-store --arc-availability=officially-supported --disable-features=ArcAndGuestOsFileTasksUseAppService,CrostiniUseDlc --disable-buffer-bw-compression --login-manager --feature-flags=["arc-game-mode@1","full-user-agent@1","ignore-gpu-blocklist","launcher-game-search@1","use-passthrough-command-decoder@1"] --first-exec-after-boot --enable-features=Pepper3DImageChromium,UmaStorageDimensions,Crostini,CrostiniGpuSupport,SmartDim --disable-features=ArcAndGuestOsFileTasksUseAppService,CrostiniUseDlc --flag-switches-begin --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-features=Pepper3DImageChromium,UmaStorageDimensions,Crostini,CrostiniGpuSupport,SmartDim,ArcGameModeFeature,DefaultPassthroughCommandDecoder,FullUserAgent,LauncherGameSearch --flag-switches-end --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Set the latest user agent or just your actual one: https://whatmyuseragent.com

Open Vivaldi with the DRM browser launcher and verify the parameters …

• flags: vivaldi://flags Override software rendering list > Enable (Do it for performance!)
• components: vivaldi://components (check if Widevine Content Decryption Module is loaded)
• gpu: vivaldi://gpu

• Just a side note about Mouse Cursor on Cloud Gaming on Vivaldi:
  All types of mouse issues will trigger you press Esc or Ctrl G the way to fix this is to keep pressing Esc a few seconds and going back into full screen mouse will go back into the game layout.

(Video recording over Linux apps really doesn’t do its justice this runs perfectly fine.)

Brave Browser Install # No DRM fun and neither is supported by GFN but for the fans its this:

sudo nala install curl build-essential python-setuptools python3-distutils
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo nala update
sudo nala install brave-browser
# in case to uninstall
sudo nala remove brave-browser brave-keyring
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-*.list

Debian Browser - no netflix fun, geforce now is supported but doesn’t work / kinda broken.

sudo nala install chromium chromium-l10n # Debian Chromium
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium --edge-touch-filtering --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --platform-disallows-chromeos-direct-video-decoder --enable-webgl-image-chromium --enable-features=Pepper3DImageChromium,UmaStorageDimensions,Crostini,CrostiniGpuSupport,SmartDim --num-raster-threads=2 --gpu-sandbox-failures-fatal=no --passive-listeners-default=true --enable-logging --log-level=1 --use-cras --enable-wayland-server --system-developer-mode --disable-mojo-broker --ash-use-cros-mojo-service-manager --cros-healthd-uses-service-manager --allow-os-install --login-profile=user --has-chromeos-keyboard --enable-touchview --disable-explicit-dma-fences --guest-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/guest_large.jpg --guest-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/guest_small.jpg --child-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/child_large.jpg --child-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/child_small.jpg --default-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/default_large.jpg --default-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/default_small.jpg --enable-consumer-kiosk --device-help-content-id=rock5b-openfyde --ozone-nnpalm-properties={} --arc-availability=installed --enterprise-enrollment-initial-modulus=15 --enterprise-enrollment-modulus-limit=19 --enable-crashpad --ml_service=enabled --ondevice_handwriting=use_rootfs --ondevice_document_scanner=use_rootfs --arc-start-mode=always-start-with-no-play-store --arc-availability=officially-supported --disable-features=ArcAndGuestOsFileTasksUseAppService,CrostiniUseDlc --disable-buffer-bw-compression --login-manager --feature-flags=["arc-game-mode@1","full-user-agent@1","ignore-gpu-blocklist","launcher-game-search@1","use-passthrough-command-decoder@1"] --first-exec-after-boot --enable-features=Pepper3DImageChromium,UmaStorageDimensions,Crostini,CrostiniGpuSupport,SmartDim --disable-features=ArcAndGuestOsFileTasksUseAppService,CrostiniUseDlc --flag-switches-begin --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-features=Pepper3DImageChromium,UmaStorageDimensions,Crostini,CrostiniGpuSupport,SmartDim,ArcGameModeFeature,DefaultPassthroughCommandDecoder,FullUserAgent,LauncherGameSearch --flag-switches-end --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Firefox Browser

sudo nala install firefox-esr

Thorium Browser

wget https://dl.thorium.rocks/debian/dists/stable/thorium.list
sudo mv thorium.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
sudo apt update
sudo apt install thorium-browser

flatpak uninstall --unused
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove flatpak
sudo apt-get purge flatpak

It takes long to install and you might not need them skip this step if you want:

# Basic linux apps libre office pulse audio etc etc. - Optional
sudo nala update && sudo nala install task-xfce-desktop network-manager-gnome gparted pulseaudio pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-bluetooth gvfs gvfs-backends policykit-1 udisks2 catfish mousepad xarchiver gdebi gigolo v4l2loopback-dkms gedit g++ qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev qttools5-dev libqt5dbus5 libqt5network5 libqt5core5a libqt5widgets5 libqt5gui5 libqt5svg5 python-setuptools python3-distutils -y && sudo nala upgrade -y && sudo nala autoremove
# Utilities gits makes curls etc - Important
sudo nala update && sudo nala install xfce4-terminal lshw git openssl ca-certificates squashfs-tools gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf libc6-dev-armhf-cross coreutils ninja-build make cmake build-essential autoconf automake autopoint gettext autotools-dev cmake curl default-jre gawk gcc g++ cpp libflatbuffers-dev  gdc gperf libasound2-dev libass-dev libavahi-client-dev libavahi-common-dev libbluetooth-dev libbluray-dev libbz2-dev libcdio-dev libcec-dev libp8-platform-dev libcrossguid-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libcwiid-dev libdbus-1-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libenca-dev libflac-dev libfontconfig-dev libfmt-dev libfreetype6-dev libfribidi-dev libfstrcmp-dev libgcrypt20-dev libgif-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libglew-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgnutls28-dev libgpg-error-dev libgtest-dev libiso9660-dev libjpeg-dev liblcms2-dev liblirc-dev libltdl-dev liblzo2-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libnfs-dev libogg-dev libomxil-bellagio-dev libpcre3-dev libplist-dev libpng-dev libpulse-dev libshairplay-dev libsmbclient-dev libspdlog-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libtag1-dev libtiff-dev libtinyxml-dev libtool libudev-dev libunistring-dev libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxmu-dev libxrandr-dev libxslt1-dev libxt-dev waylandpp-dev wayland-protocols wipe lsb-release meson nasm ninja-build python3-dev python3-pil python3-minimal rapidjson-dev swig unzip uuid-dev zip zlib1g-dev libdav1d-dev libdrm-dev ccache libclang-dev libiso9660++-dev libcap-dev clang-tools clang-tidy libpipewire-0.3-dev libsndio-dev libmariadb-dev cppcheck -y && sudo nala upgrade -y && sudo nala autoremove
# Yes it will take a while.
sudo reboot
exit

curl -fsSL [https://get.docker.com](https://get.docker.com/) -o [get-docker.sh](https://get-docker.sh/) sudo sh [get-docker.sh](https://get-docker.sh/)

sudo nala install xcb obs-studio obs-gstreamer obs-plugins xdg-desktop-portal pipewire qtwayland5 -y
#RESTART here and then run OBS with:
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM="xcb"
MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=330 obs
#--this is the way it works on armbian not sure if needs changed for FydeOS

More useful applications on Linux:

sudo nala install htop -y
sudo nala install bpytop -y
sudo nala install neofetch -y
sudo nala install screenfetch -y
sudo nala install snapd -y
sudo nala install kodi -y
sudo nala install inkscape -y
sudo nala install flatpak gnome-software-plugin-flatpak squashfs-tools && sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
sudo nala install gnome-software gnome-packagekit -y
sudo nala install gedit -y #allows you to edit and save .vim 'documents'
#example gedit bashrc

# or all at once and correctly
sudo nala update && sudo nala install gedit htop neofetch bpytop snapd flatpak xcb obs-studio obs-plugins xdg-desktop-portal pipewire qtwayland5 gnome-software-plugin-flatpak squashfs-tools gnome-software gnome-packagekit kodi inkscape -y && sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo && sudo nala upgrade -y &&

sudo reboot
exit

sudo apt install flatpak gnome-software-plugin-flatpak -y
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
sudo flatpak install flathub org.chromium.Chromium -y
sudo flatpak update -y

On System, go to “Settings” → “Accessibility” → “Manage accessibility features” → “Mouse and touchpad.”
Toggle on “Highlight the mouse cursor when it’s moving”.

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flatpak uninstall --unused
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove flatpak
sudo apt-get purge flatpak

Follow some of the community issues as well here

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Change it to english this way. Just drag and drop your .apk file into the android window it will auto install it .

🖱️Fix the google play store by doing this:▼

To become certified with access to the play store you have to:
1 - Install a device ID apk to get this Device ID and register it on your google account.
2 - Register it here: https://www.google.com/android/uncertified/
3 - Restart Malior-Droid again and add your google account manually on settings.
4 - Send apkpure the emulator window and start installing apps like a boss !

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CONFIG_STAGING=y
CONFIG_ASHMEM=y
CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_IPC=y
# CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDERFS is not set
CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_DEVICES="binder,hwbinder,vndbinder"
# CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_IPC_SELFTEST is not set
CONFIG_ESD_FS=y

sudo apt install docker docker.io adb -y
sudo mkdir /dev/binderfs
sudo mount -t binder binder /dev/binderfs
wget -O - https://github.com/ChisBread/malior/raw/main/install.sh > /tmp/malior-install.sh && bash /tmp/malior-install.sh  && rm /tmp/malior-install.sh 
malior update
malior install malior-droid
malior-droid update

sudo apt install ffmpeg libsdl2-2.0-0 adb wget gcc git pkg-config meson ninja-build libsdl2-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswresample-dev libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev -y
git clone https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
cd scrcpy
./install_release.sh

malior-droid stop ; adb disconnect localhost:5555 ; malior-droid start ; adb connect localhost:5555 ; scrcpy -s localhost:5555 ; malior-droid resize 720x1280