06-24-2016, 02:27 AM
(06-24-2016, 01:09 AM)rookieone Wrote: I started reading some forum entries and other first experiences after I ordered and read quite some negative experiences, even about just getting it booted. So while waiting for it to arrive I spent a bit of time reading here and there and prepare the images.
I used 32GB cards to write the 32GB rooted Android image and a 8GB Ubuntu image (resized the partition to use the rest of the storage) of which I read had most chance to work.
So when the Pine64 arrived on Wednesday, I tried both Android and Ubuntu images and they both booted up just fine.
Well, it is not uncommon to sometimes make a silly mistake during a simple procedure. And while most people would just repeat all the steps more carefully and succeed on the second try, a small fraction of users somehow assume that they couldn't have possibly done anything wrong and that the board must be at fault. Then they complain loudly because they are strong believers in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_custom...ways_right mantra.
Ironically, this is less likely to happen with the Raspberry Pi. Because an unreasonable complainer would come across as a sore loser, who failed doing something that even small kids have no troubles with :-) Maybe it's just a matter of time until Pine64 earns a similar reputation.
PS. I'm not talking about a tiny percentage of really defective units (which happens with any hardware) and about the cases when the board did not manage to live up to somebody's extremely high expectations (a perfect supercomputer for $15, do you believe in fairy tales?).
