Tal.OS for handheld Linux

Make complex systems feel coherent.

A handheld PC needs touch, gamepad input, power controls and desktop applications to work together. Small compatibility failures can break the experience across mode changes, sleep or software updates.

What I worked on.

• A cohesive desktop/handheld interface spanning the on-screen keyboard, control surfaces, login and notification components.
• Device-specific input, gesture, power and game-launch helpers with a canonical deployment manifest.
• A guarded porting workflow with staging checks, conflict handling and fallback behavior for shell updates.

The current Hype-Deck checkout contains active November 11 work, a documented deployment map and tests for input, games, gestures, recovery, keyboard clearance and shell porting. Port tests explicitly cover failed checks installing nothing, merge conflicts and repeat-run behavior.