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.
You should aim for an nvme with as little power consumption as possible. at least on OpenBSD (which lacks nvme power management) the pinebook pro board will hang and freeze if the nvme draws too much power.
Yep, the error message is itself erroneous (fun times). Continued with the install regardless and pressed the reboot button. Seemed stuck on a cursor. Turned it off and then back on again (drink!) and voila! :)
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? 👀
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:
@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 :)
@sesivany Yeah, Fedora Firefox is fine (apart from not being able to play videos when first run). I installed postmarketOS on the Pinebook Pro (Silverblue wasn’t a great experience on it.) Love it on my beefy Rizen desktop machine though.
@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 (https://ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical-typing-habits-for-linux/) while typing. Well, it would if Ctrl+. worked everywhere, not just in GTK apps, to bring up the lovely emoji picker popover in GNOME :)
Many of our bad habits date back to the limitations of typewriters.
Typography lends us the voice that the written word takes away from us. Good typography makes your message accessible and comprehensible and strengthens its intent.
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Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •“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
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(Don’t you just love those?)
#Fedora #FedoraSilverblue #PineBookPro #install
Has anyone gotten Fedora Silverblue working on the Pinebook Pro?
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Gonna try postmarketOS next, me thinks :)
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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 • • •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
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in reply to josef • • •Also, postmarketOS + GNOME runs really well on the Pinebook Pro. I’ve almost got everything set up exactly as I want it :)
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •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 • • •Copy org.mozilla.firefox.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/ and edit the file in that location.
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Jiří Eischmann :fedora:
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in reply to Nate Cull (.social) • • •With the compose key set to Caps Lock, that pretty much gives me all the typographical expressiveness I need (https://ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical-typing-habits-for-linux/) 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
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(Seriously, though, if you’re not going to include the GNOME apps, why make a GNOME build of your distribution?) :)