Yeah, I member.

I’m taking a dual-boot route, it does have it’s issues. Unfortunately due to work related and gaming reasons I can’t let go of it just yet.

I went with Linux Mint and I’ve been happy as Larry since I got used to it. But distro hop until you find your fit I’d say, I had spare hardware I was distro-hopping with and Mint just fit me best I think.

You’re spot on with Ventoy, it’s a huge boon. I only recently became aware of it, absolutely love it already. I highly recommend giving it a go.

Awesome writeup, I’ll likely refer to it in future.

6700XT dual, it stays cool, runs 1440p ultra and older 4k (newer stuff with some FSR) and I got it for 507AUD 6-7months ago.

I’m waiting till I see a good price on a 5900x/5950x for the rig I recently built with 5800x, the 5800x rips though I will keep it and do another build with it.

Fuckin gunzel

Stop giving them ideas.

Thank you for your in depth explanation, hope your comments help many others on top of myself.

I will give that a read. I have been unintentionally using this feature, anytime I expect I won’t use the GOS pixel for a bit I restart it, I’ve also found it disables biometrics as a security measure. Cool stuff.

TIL, I use GOS and never thought to look, I just see a banner saying there’s been updates and I’ve got “update and restart now”, “schedule restart” and “I’ll restart myself when ready” (or some such).

China seems to disagree.

I thought exactly the same thing, as previously though, I was willing to swallow the $8 (at the time) in order to use my tablet for coding (may as well be a laptop running android tbh).

That’s fucked up, it was $8AUD when I got it like a year ago. Fuckin corpos and their price hikes.

I was happy to swallow it to code on the go, but I only used it for a few weeks. Sometimes I lay in bed to code though so I can watch TV as well (never mind all the errors I make as a result).

I’ve got a Lenovo P11, goes pretty well on a charge, and VSCode is available on android, haven’t used it much as I almost always code at home now.

I’m picturing in my mind, that they’ll add an overlay that takes up your whole screen on login after October '25 that’ll just say “Upgrade to Windows 11 now!” That you can’t close.

Lucky I already upgraded OS to not include any Micro$hit.

Wouldn’t be if they weren’t constantly trying to load hardware I own with unwanted ads, software and unnecessary shit nobody asked for.

I’m not sure this will help, though I’ll suggest anyway that you poke around looking for (I hope I got this right) “rkdevtool”, I believe you can get it from somewhere in the Orangepi tools, I found it while looking into putting orangepi os (droid) onto it.

Do let me know how you go, I have a copy if you can’t find it that I’m happy to share. I haven’t yet tried it so I can’t speak to whether or not it works.

I’m actually attempting to convert my windows install into a VM these past few days, it’s most of the way there now, just need to get the VM to actually boot from that drive.

It was my original intent upon switching to Linux that I would VM my windows, however only in the last few days of trying (read: failing) to get mods for a few games working under proton, that I’ve really upped my effort.

If there are any resources you recommend, I’m all ears.

It’s a ballache through and through. I am (cautiously) optimistic for the Orangepi 5’s future, Raxda and several others have release RK3588 powered SBCs, my hope is that through some level of market saturation and community development to prevail.

I do actually have an RPi4, it’s on full-time Kodi duty at present. I’ll have to pick up a few more SD cards to load up and mess with.

I bought the Orangepi first funnily enough, because it was the peak of the RPi shortage and I didn’t want to spend blood money on an aging SBC, I did pick the RPi up the moment stock was available though, no regrets, it’s been rock solid since first boot, and even easier to work with than the community attests to.

I love that little fucker to bits, I just wish it had the power of the Pi 5 (orange OR raspberry), as it drops a fair few frames during 4k directplay, 1080/1440p runs butter smooth though.

It’s a shame really, I’d be first in line to buy the Orangepi Neo (their incoming 7840U handheld) were it not for the piss poor experience I’ve had with the Pi. Now I’m firmly planted in the “wait and see, but probably not” camp.