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[Der Geist der Maschine]

I mean, yeah it randomly crashes and reboots, but I kind of take this as par for the course at this point.


Quite obviously the OS is so buggy it is unusable - I can't hold a wifi connection for more than a few minutes and have 10 other strange bugs.

Only a few people are affected by one or another problem. Yet others aren't affected by any problem at all. This really puzzles me. How can this be on the same OS and hardware?

One explanation is that the hardware is built sloppy ... so that on some systems the wifi chip freaks out and on other systems the kernel freaks out.

At best it is a hobbyist toy right now, completely unusable for any real work (but we all expected this before ordering, so it's ok.)

I don't think we expected *this*. Known problems need to be communicated in advance. I assume whoever had a prototype (Luke, Mrfixit, Ayufan etc) didn't have any of these problems  on their laptop.

2 options - rewrite the OS/ compile your own kernel and spent many hours on it.

For this you need to be able to repro the issue.

- I can't get any kernel logs for the crashes (see email thread). I put some hope into kiloparsec.

- Someone who has the wifi drops needs to debug it. Do you see anyone picking up this task?

OR wait for someone else to make the improvements/ software to catch up.

Personally, I'm happy to be patient.

I don't see anyone actively looking into fixing wifi instability or the crashes.