Arch, Debian or other for Pinebook?

[cootcraig]

I posted on the Arch subgroup that I have not been able to get sound working with the 20190112 ArchLinux from Anarsoul. I decided to ask what distro's might be best on a Pinebook. On my desktop I use Arch (my current favorite) and Debian. For the Pinebook, I'm just looking for ease of use, good performance and best distro support. What is recommended?

[cootcraig]

It looks like the choice for me would be Ubuntu or Arch. Arch is my favorite distro, but Ubuntu seems to be the most popular and best supported Linux for Pine64. I am using a Pinebook.

[tllim]

It looks like the choice for me would be Ubuntu or Arch. Arch is my favorite distro, but Ubuntu seems to be the most popular and best supported Linux for Pine64. I am using a Pinebook.

Try Manjaro, https://manjaro.org/download/

[cootcraig]

I've installed bionic-lxde-pinebook-bspkernel-0.7.28-136.img.xz from ayufan-pine64

In order to get wifi working I created this file:

/etc/netplan/30-wifi-home.yaml

Contents:

network:
  version: 2
  renderer: NetworkManager
  wifis:
    wlan0:
      dhcp4: yes
      dhcp6: no
      access-points:
        "wifi-name":
          password: "wifi-password"


So far so good. I installed to emmc with the provided script.