Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions

[fortran]

Greetings from Dawson Creek, BC, Canada. Where the Alaska Highway begins.

I cam e through engineering (lots of numerical methods), did some sysadmin and netadmin; and now I have the family farm. I've been with Linux since 1.2.13.

At some point, I hope to have a Hardkernel Ordoid-C2 (?) and a Rock Pi 4 doing the twin jobs of GPS base station and NTP base station. The latter being a Rockchip 3399 thing.

I have a 1TB nvme SSD to slide into this Pinebook Pro 64. I proba bly have updates to do before that.

First impression, /boot is 40% full. Is there room to install a second kernel into /boot?

Booting to a root on nvme is a goal.

KDE was nice way back when, but the "semantic desktop" bothered me. I am trying to move things to LXQT. So, I am willing to try and compile what is needed to get LXQT going. Or, at least I am in the winter. I prefer to use btrfs for /home. I've no idea if this is trivial or not.

I run a lot of BOINC jobs here, because at some point I want to look at how global circulation models work with my home. (Home being The Peace Country of Alberta and BC, which is about the size of Germany.)

I dislike systemd, and most of my systems are Devuan. So, I have some interest in makings things devuan if I can.

And 2 days ago, the low here was -40C. We've been in a cold spell of -30C for the most part for a bit more than 2 weeks now. It is time for it to go away.

Have a great day!
Gord