For reading, a device does not need to be unmounted, I gave the example line
(thinking more, mount and cd to usb stick 1st,,, preface command with sudo)
don't be on internet, do it as a single task so cache is not changing
If you don't have much experience with ARM, the uboot/dtb can be a bit disconcerting
Together, those are your bios
AFAIK, every DM (desktop manager), lightdm, sddm,.... has a drop-down box to select DE,,,
installed obviously from the repository for that distro. There are MANY DE, more than 20
The 3 main, commonest being plasma, gnome, xfce (the pbp is too slow for gnome, IMO)
The difference with the lastest batch of pbp is the wifi chip,
so an earlier release will work except for wifi, for that you need 3 files
2 firmware and 1cfg (for the changed chip) OR a usb->ethernet dongle
I know little about post-market, my imppresion is that it is more for phones,
but anything from the post-market repository will (or should) work with it, but NOT anything else
One of the problems with manjaro is the repository is quite slow, and when pbp goes to sleep
the update gets quite problematic, set it NOT to go to sleep before an update (& not blank screen)
An older manjaro version may work, then update, but maybe not uboot/kernel, at least not without backup
It is possible to "pin" packages, for example the kernel
Some people say 5.10 is the latest for... I forget, something wrong in dtb & emmc
myself, 5.8 is the latest for STR,,,s2ram,,,,,. and I have pinned kernel to that version
a update to uboot requires manual application,,, but an automatic kernel update
comes with a new dtb,,, and this can be problematic
(thinking more, mount and cd to usb stick 1st,,, preface command with sudo)
don't be on internet, do it as a single task so cache is not changing
If you don't have much experience with ARM, the uboot/dtb can be a bit disconcerting
Together, those are your bios
AFAIK, every DM (desktop manager), lightdm, sddm,.... has a drop-down box to select DE,,,
installed obviously from the repository for that distro. There are MANY DE, more than 20
The 3 main, commonest being plasma, gnome, xfce (the pbp is too slow for gnome, IMO)
The difference with the lastest batch of pbp is the wifi chip,
so an earlier release will work except for wifi, for that you need 3 files
2 firmware and 1cfg (for the changed chip) OR a usb->ethernet dongle
I know little about post-market, my imppresion is that it is more for phones,
but anything from the post-market repository will (or should) work with it, but NOT anything else
One of the problems with manjaro is the repository is quite slow, and when pbp goes to sleep
the update gets quite problematic, set it NOT to go to sleep before an update (& not blank screen)
An older manjaro version may work, then update, but maybe not uboot/kernel, at least not without backup
It is possible to "pin" packages, for example the kernel
Some people say 5.10 is the latest for... I forget, something wrong in dtb & emmc
myself, 5.8 is the latest for STR,,,s2ram,,,,,. and I have pinned kernel to that version
a update to uboot requires manual application,,, but an automatic kernel update
comes with a new dtb,,, and this can be problematic