I thought this might be helpful for people that are still waiting for their PineBook. My timeline is as follows; end of December 2016 I filled out my BTO, May 3rd I got the email saying I could order one, I ordered it that day. I received my PineBook yesterday here in Denver, CO, USA and I am pretty happy with it. The overall quality is better than I had expected, it is on par with a decent quality laptop. Keyboard & touchpad are decent, not Mac quality, but very useable.
The version of Mate that it shipped with is really pretty good, very complete, faster than I thought a gui with Linux would be on this hardware. I ordered a larger emmc drive with it and would prefer a more minimal OS install (think Crunch Bang-ish) so I will be doing a minimal Linux install and starting with something like Openbox if I can swing it. Pretty sure Bunsen Labs supports arm/Debian now. If anybody has any experience with this please point me to that thread or lets start a new one.
The version of Mate that it shipped with is really pretty good, very complete, faster than I thought a gui with Linux would be on this hardware. I ordered a larger emmc drive with it and would prefer a more minimal OS install (think Crunch Bang-ish) so I will be doing a minimal Linux install and starting with something like Openbox if I can swing it. Pretty sure Bunsen Labs supports arm/Debian now. If anybody has any experience with this please point me to that thread or lets start a new one.