Pinebook Pro?

[evantaylor]

Regarding available software, forgive my lack of knowledge, I realise Arm chips are not Intel but what are the limitations? I.e. if something is open source and any necessary libraries are available for the architecture, it can be compiled to run on Arm? Is it much more involved than that?

It can be a pain, but in general yes.  This is why the Debian Repos for ARM64 are fairly complete.  I at one point setup a gentoo (Linux) server to compile from source with the specific optimizations I wanted for my Desktop/Laptop machines and make my own personal package repository (This was a long time ago when 64bit computing at home was "new").  I imagine it is not too much more work to create a build environment targeting ARM64.

If you've run Armbian before on a SBC, there isn't much that is missing.  The biggest thing I noticed were that some software packages didn't seem optimized (e.g. Chromium runs pretty fast on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+, but is very slow on my Libre Computer Renegade (Rockchip 3288)).

I am very interested in this Pinebook Pro, as it looks like the Rock Pro 64 has accelerated X11/GPU drivers and has enough "oomph" that I could use it to do my work and stream the occasional high-def video.  Does anyone know if the Armbian distro for this chip supports accelerated X11/glamour?  The video of the RockPro 64 demo is making me want to pull the trigger.