As far as Linux 5.7 goes there are many new features and improvements like an Apple USB “Fast Charge” driver, Intel Tiger Lake “Gen12” graphics are now deemed stable and promoted out of the experimental flag, AMD Renoir graphics are in good shape, F2FS Zstd support, Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 support on this mainline kernel, and a lot more.
You can of course build the new kernel yourself, but it’ll make its way to your distribution of choice soon enough.
This is what it says:
– The new exFAT file-system driver from Samsung that replaces the earlier exFAT staging driver. Linux 5.7 brings great exFAT support!
Might be useful to point out, this is the one that is “Microsoft-blessed.”
This is important. There are some Android devices that support it but there are others that don’t do it which it’s a great pain. It’ll be great when all of them support it by default.
jgfenix,
Quick question: what’s the use case for this on android?
One might connect an external sd card reader to an android device, but I don’t imagine many people doing that. Is there an obvious use case I’m not thinking of? I don’t even know what fs my android phone uses under the hood, haha, (I just checked, it’s ext4).
When my phone has a MicroSD slot, I pop it into both my Windows and my Mac laptop all the time. And my Nintendo Switch.
Plus, like it or not, exFat is the official standard for SD cards >32 GiB
Drumhellar,
Doesn’t the nintendo switch have networking? What is the reason you’d need to swap sd cards around all the time? Sorry about my ignorance here, I’m just curious.
I haven’t needed it yet personally.
Incidentally, 32GB is good for several thousands of pictures and a long day of shooting video, however after two instances of SD card related data loss, I’ve become more risk averse to storing all the data on a single card. I think all our SD cards are 16GB or less and storing more on there would make me nervous. When we travel my goal is to take pictures using different cards to mitigate the risk of loosing everything. Most people probably don’t even think about the risks of data loss until it happens to them 🙁
/off topic
Yeah, the Switch is networked, but it isn’t like there’s any file sharing software for it.
Pulling screenshots and recorded game videos off the memory card is really the only way to access them on a PC unless you want to upload to Facebook or Twitter, then re-download them after those sites do their own processing.
Or, you know, homebrew, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Drumhellar,
Honestly I’d always use a PC rather than an android phone to do those things, but I understand.that SD cards are useful for transferring data, especially when networking is not an option.
It sucks that devices like mobiles and I guess game consoles don’t support native file sharing. This has been lacking in android forever and I don’t consider 3rd party “cloud storage” an acceptable solution. Many mobiles natively support bluetooth transfers, but wifi would be better.
Given the option, I’d prefer USB over SD cards though.
Sometimes I use ghost commander on android to FTP files, but man that can get tedious compared to the ease of mounting network shares on normal operating systems. This is where the notion of “there’s an app for that” fails badly IMHO. Having to switch apps to transfer files is nowhere near as useful as directly mounting network shares, but it would require OS-level functionality that both apple and google have failed to provide. This is probably because they want to push “cloud” tech instead of letting us access our NAS & PCs directly.
Still no HDR.
I am quite disappointed that HDR is still not available. 🙁
https://www.application-filing-service.com/
Anyways, so far at seo services are us, it has been working really good.