An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro
(01-29-2020, 12:40 PM)Der Geist der Maschine Wrote: Debian 10 + Manjaro Kernel

My experience from running Debian 10 for a few days:

The kernel is rock stable. Debian 10 with xorg is rock stable. I don't run into the instability of Bullseye (as reported here and there on the forum).

Potential downside is graphics. I can live with it and patiently wait for Debian 11:
  • Firefox: youtube can play videos up to 720p in native resolution and full-screen as well. The cpu load is reasonable low.
  • Mplayer can play videos up to 720p in native resolution, only. The cpu load is reasonable low. Mplayer can't scale 720p video to full-screen. Other video players have one issue or another as well.
For a few days, I was running fbturbo, but it trashed my /var/log/Xorg.log file with 50MB/day of harmless messages.

I've seen folks building mesa-git on Bullseye. In theory, it should be also possible on Debian 10. Last week, I tried building mesa-git but it had dependencies on wayland and so I stopped. Also, you don't have the convenience of apt-get automagically applying the latest bug and security fixes.

Debian 10 is good enough for me. You mileage may vary. Its biggest selling point is it simply works.

This sounds good and a great way to go.  Hope it continues to prove out.   Love Debian 10.   Thanks for the update and sharing.


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RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - by PineFan - 01-29-2020, 04:09 PM
First boot - by JaredT66 - 05-19-2020, 09:49 AM
RE: First boot - by carletes - 05-19-2020, 01:35 PM

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