Replacing Manjero with Ubunto on a PBP

[john.ismyname]

A few months ago, I got a PBP, which I love! I do want to replace the factory loaded Manjero with Ubuntu. Please advise the procedure for this.

After never having used Linux before, I installed Ubuntu on a an old wounded Windows 11 machine without really knowing what I was doing and it worked!

I am this inclined to invoke the boot menu on start-up (is this ALT + F2 on PBP?) and install from the USB drive I used for the Win 11 machine.

Please advise.

- John

[LivingLinux]

A few months ago, I got a PBP, which I love! I do want to replace the factory loaded Manjero with Ubuntu. Please advise the procedure for this.

After never having used Linux before, I installed Ubuntu on a an old wounded Windows 11 machine without really knowing what I was doing and it worked!

I am this inclined to invoke the boot menu on start-up (is this ALT + F2 on PBP?) and install from the USB drive I used for the Win 11 machine.

Please advise.

- John

I'm afraid it's not as easy as it is in the x86 world (Intel/AMD).

And you can't use the Ubuntu image that you used for your Win 11 machine (assuming it has an Intel or AMD CPU).

And judging from your post, it is probably better you start experimenting with installing new images on a micro SD card.
Here are some options: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pr...re_Release

[john.ismyname]

A few months ago, I got a PBP, which I love! I do want to replace the factory loaded Manjero with Ubuntu. Please advise the procedure for this.

After never having used Linux before, I installed Ubuntu on a an old wounded Windows 11 machine without really knowing what I was doing and it worked!

I am this inclined to invoke the boot menu on start-up (is this ALT + F2 on PBP?) and install from the USB drive I used for the Win 11 machine.

Please advise.

- John

I'm afraid it's not as easy as it is in the x86 world (Intel/AMD).

And you can't use the Ubuntu image that you used for your Win 11 machine (assuming it has an Intel or AMD CPU).

And judging from your post, it is probably better you start experimenting with installing new images on a micro SD card.
Here are some options: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pr...re_Release

Thanks for your prompt reply. Wish me luck

[KC9UDX]

I highly recommend doing either one of two things:

1) Stick with Manjaru

Or

2) Find a distru you really like. There are a lot of them out there. Try as many as you can. Don't forget the BSDs.

[igorp]

I highly recommend doing either one of two things:

1) Stick with Manjaru

Or

2) Find a distru you really like.  There are a lot of them out there.  Try as many as you can.  Don't forget the BSDs.

1. Manjaro is primarily "lets build what others developed and ship" - its max what users are willing to pay for ... This suppose to be in-house distro as they are receiving cash to support Pine hardware ... but that support obviously mainly goes into promotion and nothing or very very little falls for R&D + maintainace. Biggest expense remains leveraged to amateur community - "if we want that cheap and quirky hw works, we need to fix it". It works for most cases, but in Linux software support, this job never ends, hard things often remains unfixed as nobody is willing to cover any expenses and fixing is only done in "best effort manner". Most people usually aren't aware of that. You also don't dare to f* around with people that heavily sponsors you https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/

2) ARM world and especially cheap hw without proper software support is not exactly distro hoppers friendly. HW people would love to have that feature, to sell more, but not at their expense. There are many distros out there, yes, but most of the time they are broken. This is latest experience from random user trying to get this damn thing working: 

https://twitter.com/mikecodemonkey/statu...5508785154
armbian is still a lot better choice then manjaro, works better https://twitter.com/mikecodemonkey/statu...8997813248 but also not completely. Problem is fixable, but its not a five minute job and its unknown who will pay the bill, so bug is not even recorded. There are thousands of other bugs reported waiting for donation.
https://twitter.com/mikecodemonkey/statu...9978986496 at the end random distro which by some luck had just right old kernel & boot loader combo took the price for the job they did little for "Nix is really trying to be the best distro ever" ... where things worked at first try. Ofc new challenges are about to be seen if he will have balls to run update ... 
LOL, actually 

[KC9UDX]

Many are broken, but it depends on the use case. I'm usually perfectly happy running old versions that work.