I wrote this article last year when I tried macOS 10.14 through a dualboot Hackintosh system on my Ryzen gaming PC. To summarize, my opinion on the Linux desktop is that in-fighting is resulting in a stagnating desktop (specifically GNOME, just look at the theming ‘controversy’), with an ever shrinking…

I’ve been using Linux as my primary computing operating system since the Ubuntu 11.04 days, and only in the past few years have I completely ridden myself of my dependence on Windows for gaming, thanks to projects like dxvk and Proton from Valve. But throughout my time as a Linux…

UPDATE 2020/05/02: SPARE PARTS https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1256689488484589568 NOW AVAILABLE UPDATE 2020/05/01: I started writing this review easily a months ago, and I haven’t touched my Pinebook Pro because I turned it into a Minecraft server, so anywhere you see a strikethrough is where I had updated the review. Well, this has been…

The saga continues … A quick backstory I had planned on running Manjaro ARM on my brand-new Pinebook Pro, but due to some shipping issues (COVID-19), I’ve been waiting since the 19th of January for my device. I won’t blame Pine64 for the delay, since the Chinese government is absolute, and shipping between…

I’ve been using Samsung DeX on my Samsung Galaxy S9+ practically daily for a good 2 weeks now and I feel like I have a few words on usability and the general UX experience. First and foremost: This hasn’t replaced ANY of my devices. I use my Linux desktop for…

The LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL IS HERE! After using the device daily for school-work and general web browsing for around 4 months, I have better advice to make the experience of using the Surface Go (and in general Surfaci devices) a million times better. While I did upgrade F30 -> F31, the…

I’m currently looking into making a NAS out of a Raspberry Pi, and while I found lots of tutorials, some go into too much detail and are hard to navigate. So this story is basically just a guide for myself based on these guides [1] [2] [3]. …

UPDATE FOR FEDORA 31: https://medium.com/@TheBitStick/fedora-31-on-the-surface-go-f81dbb9fa91b Setting up this thing has taken a few days and many hours of free time. So here’s a tutorial of absolutely everything I did to setup this thing. Get the ISO installed. Surfaci do not use MBR for USB Boot, but rather, ONLY GPT UEFI…