For an alternative view to the article, I bought one of the first batches as well, and I couldn't be happier. I don't know what the stock DE is like, as the fir

For an alternative view to the article, I bought one of the first batches as well, and I couldn't be happier. I don't know what the stock DE is like, as the first thing I did was install arch and lxqt, since I knew from the get-go it was a low powered machine and Plasma was just going to chug on it. I'm not having any issues with playback in browsers (fullscreen or otherwise using latest FireFox), and I use it in bed quite a lot for watching videos, so I'm not sure if there's some specific configuration issue the guy in the article is having, although this could probably be easily worked around with youtube-dl into mpv if you're having something similar happen. I'm also not seeing the same problems on the terminal. I'm using alacritty as my terminal emulator and elv.sh as my shell, with similar customisations to display git statuses etc, and while I notice the occasional white flash (I'm not sure what this is honestly, something to do with alacritty rendering I'm assuming) there's no sluggishness. The trackpad is admittedly horrible, you really need to buy a bluetooth mouse or seperate trackpad because it really is just frustrating to use, on the other hand the keyboard is really solid, I love the feel of it and it's responsive. The monitor, well I'm probably not the person to ask about that. I personally think it looks pretty good, but I'm really not the kind of person who cares or notices about sub-pixel perfect rendering, so YMMV with that. The battery times are also not great, and although you can technically charge it through the USB-C port, it'll still drain power if it's turned on. This isn't helped by the fact I can't get the default brightness up and down buttons to work and have to type sudo lxqt-backlight_backend --inc / --dec to change the backlight. Yes, it is kind of slow, but you really must've known that going into it considering the price and the specs. Overall, my personal perception is that the pinebook pro is batting well above it's weight (well, mine is anyway), and I honestly expected it to be far slower than it is.