11-12-2019, 07:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2019, 12:54 PM by forkbomb9.
Edit Reason: Firefox 70 works well
)
So, I received my PBP yesterday and so far, so good. It really looks awesome!
The good:
It's a well built device, and also very sleek. My brother says it looks like a dark 2014 Macbook Air (which does, but it's not a bad thing)
I was super impressed by the boot time. My Dell's Artix Linux+runit+btrfs compressed root boots in 12 seconds from an HDD, but this thing is ready in almost less than 5!
The keyboard is _awesome_. Really. I can't compare it to a mechanical keyboard, but it's ten times better than my Dell Inspiron 14 one. It's also louder, but I like that.
I'm used to a Latin American keyboard layout, so an ISO isn't a deal breaker.
The screen... Can't describe well enough. The colors are _much_ better than the ones on my Dell. It's also FHD, and mate (I can finally write near my windows!) Comparing the two, side by side, on the same moment of the same movie, the Dell looks faded.
A word on the FHD thing. I like it a lot, but by default everything looks _small_ (and I like small things). I had to increase the font size, and scale chromium to 1.2 to see something. (But you see much more web content than on a same size HD screen. IDK if it's good or bad
)
The OS works well by default (except from the font size). Firefox does crashes, but Chromium works very well (I wonder why the launcher uses the ChromeOS user agent?)
I was waiting to get a touchpad almost unusable, but it's actually good enough. I mean, it can be improved, but it's not that bad. You get some sloppy scrolling on Chromium, which doesn't happen with an USB mouse, but I think with the firmware update it'll be much better.
Also, I have to plug in a WiFi repeater to connect with my Dell, but the PBP gets it perfectly. That's a huge plus.
The speakers are good enough for a laptop.
The bad:
The touchpad does a loud click when you press the buttons, and if you click in the center it presses the two buttons at the same time.
On the software side, there's some problems: the kernel provided by Debian 9 doesn't support Btrfs. (and before anyone says _don't use it, it breaks, blah blah blah_, it works well for me, Never had data loss and I feel like it's faster, so I've got btrfs on my external HDD, and it's a shame I can't access it from the PBP (Have to boot into my laptop, copy a movie to a pendrive and then watch it on the PBP...)
Also, I think it's a software issue, but playing a FullHD youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyqNR6W_MUQ) skips a lot of frames. And it's not the only one, just an example. It doesn't really matter to me, as I don't use youtube too much, but I wonder why that happens. Maybe the Debian build isn't optimized to the max? EDIT: downloaded firefox 70 from http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/f/fire..._armhf.deb and hadn't got a single crash with it. It also plays FHD videos perfectly.
The ugly:
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Final notes:
I haven't tested yet USB-C dock/video/charging/ethernet, as I haven't any external display nor USB-C cable, but I'm getting a display by the end of the month. I will update the post then (if I rememeber ).
If anyone can tell me which USB-C to ethernet and USB-C to hdmi adapter works, I'd be really grateful. (I'm getting this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JW7...C2TF&psc=1 and if doesn't work, return it)
Overall, I'm super impressed with my PBP, and Pine64 has done a very good job on this. Really, huge thanks to all the Pine64 team.
I'll try to use it as my daily driver this week. Maybe not for developing heavy C programs, and I have yet to try Rust compiling here, but for web browsing/watching local movies (don't have netflix)/using libreoffice, I really like it.
Almost forgot... I'm running FreeBSD on my Dell, and I like it a lot. I know about low level things, even if I haven't written any driver on my life. But I learn fast, so I'll try to get it running on the PBP (Any FreeBSD developer? Want to team up?)
The good:
It's a well built device, and also very sleek. My brother says it looks like a dark 2014 Macbook Air (which does, but it's not a bad thing)
I was super impressed by the boot time. My Dell's Artix Linux+runit+btrfs compressed root boots in 12 seconds from an HDD, but this thing is ready in almost less than 5!
The keyboard is _awesome_. Really. I can't compare it to a mechanical keyboard, but it's ten times better than my Dell Inspiron 14 one. It's also louder, but I like that.
I'm used to a Latin American keyboard layout, so an ISO isn't a deal breaker.
The screen... Can't describe well enough. The colors are _much_ better than the ones on my Dell. It's also FHD, and mate (I can finally write near my windows!) Comparing the two, side by side, on the same moment of the same movie, the Dell looks faded.
A word on the FHD thing. I like it a lot, but by default everything looks _small_ (and I like small things). I had to increase the font size, and scale chromium to 1.2 to see something. (But you see much more web content than on a same size HD screen. IDK if it's good or bad
)The OS works well by default (except from the font size). Firefox does crashes, but Chromium works very well (I wonder why the launcher uses the ChromeOS user agent?)
I was waiting to get a touchpad almost unusable, but it's actually good enough. I mean, it can be improved, but it's not that bad. You get some sloppy scrolling on Chromium, which doesn't happen with an USB mouse, but I think with the firmware update it'll be much better.
Also, I have to plug in a WiFi repeater to connect with my Dell, but the PBP gets it perfectly. That's a huge plus.
The speakers are good enough for a laptop.
The bad:
The touchpad does a loud click when you press the buttons, and if you click in the center it presses the two buttons at the same time.
On the software side, there's some problems: the kernel provided by Debian 9 doesn't support Btrfs. (and before anyone says _don't use it, it breaks, blah blah blah_, it works well for me, Never had data loss and I feel like it's faster, so I've got btrfs on my external HDD, and it's a shame I can't access it from the PBP (Have to boot into my laptop, copy a movie to a pendrive and then watch it on the PBP...)
Also, I think it's a software issue, but playing a FullHD youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyqNR6W_MUQ) skips a lot of frames. And it's not the only one, just an example. It doesn't really matter to me, as I don't use youtube too much, but I wonder why that happens. Maybe the Debian build isn't optimized to the max? EDIT: downloaded firefox 70 from http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/f/fire..._armhf.deb and hadn't got a single crash with it. It also plays FHD videos perfectly.
The ugly:
NULL
Final notes:
I haven't tested yet USB-C dock/video/charging/ethernet, as I haven't any external display nor USB-C cable, but I'm getting a display by the end of the month. I will update the post then (if I rememeber
).If anyone can tell me which USB-C to ethernet and USB-C to hdmi adapter works, I'd be really grateful. (I'm getting this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JW7...C2TF&psc=1 and if doesn't work, return it)
Overall, I'm super impressed with my PBP, and Pine64 has done a very good job on this. Really, huge thanks to all the Pine64 team.
I'll try to use it as my daily driver this week. Maybe not for developing heavy C programs, and I have yet to try Rust compiling here, but for web browsing/watching local movies (don't have netflix)/using libreoffice, I really like it.
Almost forgot... I'm running FreeBSD on my Dell, and I like it a lot. I know about low level things, even if I haven't written any driver on my life. But I learn fast, so I'll try to get it running on the PBP (Any FreeBSD developer? Want to team up?)