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Some of the KDE guys seem to have made it their pet project to get KDE to run well on a Pinebook[0]. [0]https://dot.kde.org/2018/08/22/kde-plasma-arm-laptop-pi
by AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
Some of the KDE guys seem to have made it their pet project to get KDE to run well on a Pinebook[0].
[0]https://dot.kde.org/2018/08/22/kde-plasma-arm-laptop-pinebook https://dot.kde.org/2018/08/22/kde-plasma-arm-laptop-pineboo...
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- plett 8y agoYes. It's an Allwinner A64 chip underneath and they have binary blobs which they haven't ported to anything newer than 3.10
- bildung 8y agoThe original article says the boards have mainline support. Are you sure?
- imtringued 8y agoA mainline kernel won't be of much help you if you don't have GPU drivers.
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- sevensor 8y agoWell now. That might tip me over into "kids' first laptop" territory.