Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions

[neilman]

I seem to be sinking deeper down the rabbit hole  

I turned off the machine when the power got low and charged it until the happy light went out.

I'm only using Firefox/Chromium as supplied with the Pinebook - both seem to be working now.
I added my "standard test" of Aisleriot Solitaire using the add software package - it has never worked on this machine.

I have the eternal problem that my printers (Brother HL4150CDN and Epson XP830) are not listed in most of the limited Linux CUPS system.
Can't remember the one distro I used a good while ago that worked like windows and installed them without any effort.
It's half installed now but mentioned a missing driver element I have no idea how to get.
I copied the PPD file using a pen drive which is perfectly mounted and accessible but refuses to eject citing "no such file" or similar.

I tried to shut down the system at one point, but although video went black it didn't turn off, ever. I had to force power off.

My battery level indicator has now disappeared from the desktop so I can no longer tell how low its going.
The 1.4GHz CPU speed I set on a previous boot has reverted to 400MHz.
And now the system itself crashes and restarts after 5-10 minutes.

I think I might really need to try another Distro and see if that improves my lot.