Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions

[jpakkane]

Hope to post a proper video this weekend, but here are some things to note after a few hours' usage:

• Having a matte screen is awesome
  
• The surface finish looks nice and stylish
  
• Trackpad acceleration for small movements is awful, especially considering that the default window frames on Mate seem to be one pixel wide. They are almost impossible to hit. The firmware upgrade can not come soon enough.
  
• Switching to a Finnish keyboard layout works fine, apart from the fact that typing "ä" or "ö" to the terminal causes it to interpret them as some sort of control codes.
  
• External USB sticks work, but for some reason a full external hard drive does not, dmesg has something about "UAS is blacklisted, using usb-storage instead".
  
• There are some packages missing, causing problems. As an example you can't eject USB drives, because the file manager tries to call the "eject" binary that does not exist. Installing the package "eject" fixes this.