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I stuck a recent Kubuntu on mine with no big issue. The screen is wired in sideways though so you'll have to tell your DE to rotate the display (or xrandr --rot

I stuck a recent Kubuntu on mine with no big issue. The screen is wired in sideways though so you'll have to tell your DE to rotate the display (or xrandr --rotate). Everything else just worked.

ekianjo 6y ago
Thanks for reporting. How do you like that device so far? What do you use it mainly for?
- progman32 6y ago
  Love it when used in its niche (for me): - Walking around a building, working on the network. - Those occasions where I "might need a computer" but don't want to lug around a bag. Traveling for pleasure, while on-call at work, etc. Thing fits in my jacket pocket. - Working on my car (plugging into the OBD port, tuning, etc). - Gaming/video while traveling. Its single-channel memory severely limits what you can play (unlike GPD's gaming line), but I'm into oldschool and indie games so it's fine. I could use my phone but I like PC games and software better. Also it's weird and I like weird things :) I wouldn't recommend it as a primary workstation unless your situation really calls for it. I've used it with a USB-C docking station as a primary machine while I was between homes. It worked fine, bit slow. Went back to my Zen2 beast as soon as possible. It charges and runs off of a normal USB-C power bank, which gives me ridiculous runtime for cheap. My "minimal" travel kit has the GPD, my phone, and one charger between the two. Crazy capability in a jacket pocket. Things I don't like about it: - Whiny fan. Not sure what could be done, it's so tiny... you can turn it off with a handy switch above the keyboard, but I don't really like doing that. - Single channel memory. Severely cripples the GPU. GPD's gaming machines don't have this issue. - No video output over USB-C, you have to use the full-size HDMI. - Display is wired sideways. Linux/GRUB doesn't auto detect this; Windows does. - Wish it had a nub mouse. Would free up space for a more normal KB layout. Edit: formatting
  - guru_meditation 6y ago
    Linux/GRUB protip: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=efifb fbcon=rotate_all:1 quiet" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="video=efifb fbcon=rotate_all:1 quiet splash noautomount" GRUB_GFXMODE=1200x1920x32 ( see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/9sl9sp/grub_landscape_working/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/9sl9sp/grub_land... ) More super-handy GPD patches https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin (Note: a lot of this is not needed anymore and mainlined into Ubuntu 20, Linux Mint 20, etc.)

I stuck a recent Kubuntu on mine with no big issue. The screen is wired in sideways though so you'll have to tell your DE to rotate the display (or xrandr --rotate). Everything else just worked.

ekianjo 6y ago

Thanks for reporting. How do you like that device so far? What do you use it mainly for?

progman32 6y ago
Love it when used in its niche (for me): - Walking around a building, working on the network. - Those occasions where I "might need a computer" but don't want to lug around a bag. Traveling for pleasure, while on-call at work, etc. Thing fits in my jacket pocket. - Working on my car (plugging into the OBD port, tuning, etc). - Gaming/video while traveling. Its single-channel memory severely limits what you can play (unlike GPD's gaming line), but I'm into oldschool and indie games so it's fine. I could use my phone but I like PC games and software better. Also it's weird and I like weird things :) I wouldn't recommend it as a primary workstation unless your situation really calls for it. I've used it with a USB-C docking station as a primary machine while I was between homes. It worked fine, bit slow. Went back to my Zen2 beast as soon as possible. It charges and runs off of a normal USB-C power bank, which gives me ridiculous runtime for cheap. My "minimal" travel kit has the GPD, my phone, and one charger between the two. Crazy capability in a jacket pocket. Things I don't like about it: - Whiny fan. Not sure what could be done, it's so tiny... you can turn it off with a handy switch above the keyboard, but I don't really like doing that. - Single channel memory. Severely cripples the GPU. GPD's gaming machines don't have this issue. - No video output over USB-C, you have to use the full-size HDMI. - Display is wired sideways. Linux/GRUB doesn't auto detect this; Windows does. - Wish it had a nub mouse. Would free up space for a more normal KB layout. Edit: formatting
- guru_meditation 6y ago
  Linux/GRUB protip: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=efifb fbcon=rotate_all:1 quiet" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="video=efifb fbcon=rotate_all:1 quiet splash noautomount" GRUB_GFXMODE=1200x1920x32 ( see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/9sl9sp/grub_landscape_working/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/9sl9sp/grub_land... ) More super-handy GPD patches https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin (Note: a lot of this is not needed anymore and mainlined into Ubuntu 20, Linux Mint 20, etc.)