10-03-2019, 06:36 AM
As everyone else has mentioned - it's a beautiful machine - no question. Sleek and black, excellent screen, good feeling keyboard.
USB-C to HDMI works perfectly and didn't take too long to recharge from 23% to charging LED extinguish.
Even tried pairing a Bluetooth mouse and that worked easy peasy.
I guess I'm a trouble-magnet but I am mindful of ARM and have bunches of Raspberry Pis and a beautiful and functional Pinebook 1080 so I am not basing my problems on "worked on windows". One thing to note is I'm a "GUI" man - don't launch anything from the command line except when instructed to do so.
The system crashing problem seems to have stopped for now. When it crashed it rebooted immediately so no onscreen message to note down.
The battery level indicator has returned as well.
I also noticed the CPU speed now bounces up and down with varying activities
Screen brightness is defaulted to 1/3rd and easy to tweak when required with the function keys.
Chromium browser also seems stable now
The solitaire game, was acquired from the included software update function, has worked on every machine I had tried it on ... except this one.
You have your benchmark programs, Solitaire is mine. If it works smoothly and I win sometimes then all is good.
Given up with the printer for now but it is very galling to find the excellent Libre office system but unable to print anything.
Admittedly only a few Linux distros I have used in the past have made installing a printer almost automatic. Fighting CUPS is not fun.
Given up with as-supplied Firefox as it reliably crashes after a few minutes uptime, every time.
Probably just me - everyone else will have no problems at all with their machines
USB-C to HDMI works perfectly and didn't take too long to recharge from 23% to charging LED extinguish.
Even tried pairing a Bluetooth mouse and that worked easy peasy.
I guess I'm a trouble-magnet but I am mindful of ARM and have bunches of Raspberry Pis and a beautiful and functional Pinebook 1080 so I am not basing my problems on "worked on windows". One thing to note is I'm a "GUI" man - don't launch anything from the command line except when instructed to do so.
The system crashing problem seems to have stopped for now. When it crashed it rebooted immediately so no onscreen message to note down.
The battery level indicator has returned as well.
I also noticed the CPU speed now bounces up and down with varying activities
Screen brightness is defaulted to 1/3rd and easy to tweak when required with the function keys.
Chromium browser also seems stable now
The solitaire game, was acquired from the included software update function, has worked on every machine I had tried it on ... except this one.
You have your benchmark programs, Solitaire is mine. If it works smoothly and I win sometimes then all is good.
Given up with the printer for now but it is very galling to find the excellent Libre office system but unable to print anything.
Admittedly only a few Linux distros I have used in the past have made installing a printer almost automatic. Fighting CUPS is not fun.
Given up with as-supplied Firefox as it reliably crashes after a few minutes uptime, every time.
Probably just me - everyone else will have no problems at all with their machines