06-25-2023, 12:56 PM
The ultimate fix for this would be to ship the Pinebook Pro without an operating system installed. But this would force everyone to have a micro-SD card solution anyway.
Really, this is a hobbyist computer and needs other resources to support it. The minimal support resources would be a micro-SD card and a way to write an appropriate image to it.
If I needed an array of laptop computers for a specific purpose, I wouldn't hesitate to use the PBP. This is based on my experience using them. I use NetBSD on both of mine, but I do have Manjaru on my wife's. I did have to struggle with the default Manjaru installations. But once I got them up and running, I haven't had any issues since. And I do thrash my PBPs with NetBSD pretty well.
I actually thought of this yesterday, being at a contesting station with four networked laptops for collaborative logging. Except that the specific software running required Windoze, I couldn't help thinking how much better four PBPs would have been, especially seeing the admins struggle to get them going after power outages.
Really, this is a hobbyist computer and needs other resources to support it. The minimal support resources would be a micro-SD card and a way to write an appropriate image to it.
If I needed an array of laptop computers for a specific purpose, I wouldn't hesitate to use the PBP. This is based on my experience using them. I use NetBSD on both of mine, but I do have Manjaru on my wife's. I did have to struggle with the default Manjaru installations. But once I got them up and running, I haven't had any issues since. And I do thrash my PBPs with NetBSD pretty well.
I actually thought of this yesterday, being at a contesting station with four networked laptops for collaborative logging. Except that the specific software running required Windoze, I couldn't help thinking how much better four PBPs would have been, especially seeing the admins struggle to get them going after power outages.
