The PineBook Pro is rather beautiful on the inside.
(Although I’d rather I was able to make it boot from an sd card without having to open it and unplug wires.) 👀
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The PineBook Pro is rather beautiful on the inside.
(Although I’d rather I was able to make it boot from an sd card without having to open it and unplug wires.) 👀
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Note if you’re opening it that the screws are different lengths: wiki.pine64.org/wiki/File:Pine…
#PineBookPro #hardware
PinebookProScrewGuide.png
PINE64Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Snapped off the eMMC drive and it’s booting into Tow-Boot from the SD card.
#PineBookPro
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •While I’m at it, might as well install the NVMe interface adapter.
#PineBookPro
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Scratch that, thought I’d repurpose the drive from the MNT prototype I’m not using (makes a lovely prop, though, and glad I supported them; they’re doing great work) but that’s an mSATA not NVMe. Oh well, will have to order a drive for later.
#PineBookPro
Stefan Sperling
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Stefan Sperling • • •Flaki
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Flaki • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Yay! Fedora Silverblue is being installed on my PinebookPro as we speak :)
#FedoraSilverblue #PineBookPro
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Might have spoken too soon. Either it’s taking forever (seems stuck on “writing objects”) or it’s stuck.
#FedoraSilverblue #PineBookPro
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aha, and now an error message:
“The following error occured while installing the boot loader. The system will not be bootable…:
Failed to set new efi boot target. This is most likely a kernel or a firmware bug.”
Fun times.
Someone get the folks at Fedora a PinebookPro.
CC @Pine64
#FedoraSilverblue #Pine64 #PineBookPro #ARM
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Ah, interesting, so maybe the error message is wrong?
discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
(Don’t you just love those?)
#Fedora #FedoraSilverblue #PineBookPro #install
Has anyone gotten Fedora Silverblue working on the Pinebook Pro?
Fedora DiscussionAral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Hmm, seems it’s not seeing the WiFi adapter (yes, I checked the kill “switch” – meta + F11 – it’s correct, and yes I rebooted just to make sure) :)
Gonna try postmarketOS next, me thinks :)
#PineBookPro #fedoraSilverblue
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Ah, it started so well, and then… 👀
#postMarketOS #pineBookPro
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •It’s installed and snappy (I installed the GNOME version and it’s faster than it was under Fedora Silverblue). And WiFi works. But… no GNOME Software? No web browser? 👀
#postMarketOS #pineBookPro
Rynach
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •So if anyone else is running into this, you can install the basic GNOME apps by running:
sudo setup-desktop gnome
Not sure why postmarketOS GNOME for Pinebook Pro doesn’t come with this as default.
#postMarketOS #pineBookPro #GNOME #alpine #apk
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •The default resolution is too dense on the Pinebook Pro, so I had to:
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"
And then set it to 150% in the display settings.
If you do that and use Firefox, it will appear blurry so edit the firefox.desktop file (/usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop) and change the exec line to:
Exec=env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox %u
#postmarketOS #alpine #fractionalScaling #firefox #wayland
josef
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to josef • • •@josef I have a lot of server stuff deployed with Ubuntu but I have no idea why anyone would want to use it as a desktop at this point. I’ll take a distro with stock GNOME (like Fedora) any day (I run Fedora Silverblue on my daily driver).
Also, postmarketOS + GNOME runs really well on the Pinebook Pro. I’ve almost got everything set up exactly as I want it :)
josef
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Desikner
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@josef I have no idea why any one would use Ubuntu on servers when you have Debian.
On the desktop, if you like new software, you can run Debian testing or unstable, whatever you prefer.
On a side note: Just updated an old Debian install from 9 to 11, skipping 10. Try that with Ubuntu LTS.
Desikner
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Until there is a Firefox update and you'll have to do it again.
Copy org.mozilla.firefox.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/ and edit the file in that location.
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Jiří Eischmann
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •Nate Cull (.social)
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •is.... is that a snake key on the British English keyboard
why does British have a snake key
Aral Balkan
in reply to Nate Cull (.social) • • •@natecull No idea, I use the English (Mac) layout everywhere and rarely glance at the keyboard :)
With the compose key set to Caps Lock, that pretty much gives me all the typographical expressiveness I need (ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical…) while typing. Well, it would if Ctrl+. worked everywhere, not just in GTK apps, to bring up the lovely emoji picker popover in GNOME :)
Typographical typing habits for Linux
Aral BalkanStefan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •@kayfaber [Citation needed]
;)
(Seriously, though, if you’re not going to include the GNOME apps, why make a GNOME build of your distribution?) :)