12-23-2020, 03:29 AM
I hope it doesn't come to reinstalling especially after installing gigabytes of awesome stuff and customizing it the way I like. However I did discover something. Apparently the KDE environment and some of the other installed environments are using something called wayland. I did get a plasma wayland session installed via pacman so I got a kde environment started, but then guess what, none of my opengl or SDL programs worked under wayland as they appear to depend on xorg instead. I'd like to be able to figure out how I can get everything working because I was using the kate text editor to edit my opengl source code and run it. Now konsole, kate, kwrite, and konqueror don't work under xorg and opengl doesn't work under wayland. I remember the good old days when everything was just xorg and everything worked. Maybe I'm just missing something somehow.
Also, I did put a microsd card into the slot. It's not bootable and I was only using it for extra storage, but if I have that sd card in there, would the dd command work t copy the OS images onto it and then boot from it when rebooting? I'm a little bit afraid to try it because I know that one mistake and typing in the wrong device name would totally blow the whole system and lacking another computer to prepare a bootable sd card I would really screw myself over if I tried that. Still I'm impressed with what the pinebook pro can do although I'm not very good at using it yet.
Also, I did put a microsd card into the slot. It's not bootable and I was only using it for extra storage, but if I have that sd card in there, would the dd command work t copy the OS images onto it and then boot from it when rebooting? I'm a little bit afraid to try it because I know that one mistake and typing in the wrong device name would totally blow the whole system and lacking another computer to prepare a bootable sd card I would really screw myself over if I tried that. Still I'm impressed with what the pinebook pro can do although I'm not very good at using it yet.
