06-13-2023, 01:51 AM
(06-12-2023, 12:40 PM)acruhl Wrote: Hello all. I got my PineTab 2 last week and it's been pretty fun so far. It's definitely not a replacement for the PineBook Pro.
I'm typing this on the PineTab 2 right now, pretty cool.
Questions:
1. Does anyone know of a case or device that makes this tablet "feel" or work more like a laptop? Meaning, I want to put it on my lap and I don't want the keyboard flopping around. I want it to open and work more like a real laptop. I've been looking and I can't find anything.
2. Is there a such thing as a supported WiFi and bluetooth adapter which is combined into 1 device? I use bluetooth pretty often. I have an adapter that should work, I just don't want to use a hub so I can have both devices active at once.
3. Is there some way to get packages from elsewhere? For example, there is no qemu package in the default repository. I don't know Linux well enough to know if I get packages from somewhere else if that will fundamentally break this. From BSD, an architecture is pretty much an architecture and the packages work on everything that has a given CPU.
Thoughts:
It's not super duper fast, but pretty reasonable for light tasks. I'm enjoying it. It's only just a bit slower than the PineBook Pro.
I had issues with Plasma when I pinned programs to the task bar. For example, if I pin Firefox to the task bar Plasma has issues when I log out and log back in. I don't know if that's a Plasma problem or a PineTab 2 problem.
I wish the battery life was longer but maybe this will get better over time with better hardware support.
Kinda wanting the RISC-V one now...
1- no clue about the case, someone else might know
2- here's a list of working usb-wifi dongles supported drivers, i'm not sure if they also have bluetooth, but you could check: https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blo...rt_List.md
3- You should be able to install packages from somewhere else or compile them yourself and this should not break your system, unless you remove things or there's conflicts, just read about the package before doing it. (i installed Vivaldi snapshot from their site and it's not in the repos).
Why do you say qemu it's not available?
The software you mention is in the official Extra repository of arch: https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch6...system-arm so you should be able to download and install it.
In the terminal type "sudo pacman -Ss qemu" this will list "qemu" packages on my device i get a bunch of them which means they exist and i can install them.
Just checking if you don't see them for any other reason.
If they don't show up in "discover" try the terminal, i don't like discover much (might be personal but it does not really work well for me)... pacman is the command to install packages in arch (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman)
About the plasma task bar, what issue you have when you pin programs?
Hope any of this helps out
