I'm all in for Pinebook Pro, other open-source hardware projects and ARM ecosystem in general (I even run my production application on an ARM server). But at t

I'm all in for Pinebook Pro, other open-source hardware projects and ARM ecosystem in general (I even run my production application on an ARM server). But at the same time, we need to be cognizant of the need for software optimisations in ARM running pure Linux operating systems. Much of the complaints levelled against Pinebook can be said for any other similar spec ARM SBC for GUI applications. Some performance tuning could be made at user end such as bloat free Arch ARM, SSD, Btrfs, Zswap etc.[1] but still performance gap with similar spec X86_64 are clearly visible. I have a Acer Chromebook 11 N7, running fan less intel celeron N3060, 4GB RAM, MIL-STD 810G which retailed for $250 (but Google sent one for free to me)[2]. The performance enhancements Google has made with Chromium/ChromeOS is very visible, with every update it got better, there's no sluggishness unless we go overboard with memory. I think there's a reason Google ditched ARM for Chromebooks in spite of it being favourable to run android apps. Mozilla & other free software behemoths who build GUI applications should seriously care about ARM ecosystem when we are voting for projects like Pinebook/PinePhone/Librem with our wallet. [1]https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experience-on-raspberry-pi/ https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experien... [2]https://abishekmuthian.com/reviewing-the-chromebook-google-sent-me-for-free-after-2years/ https://abishekmuthian.com/reviewing-the-chromebook-google-s...