Some of the KDE guys seem to have made it their pet project to get KDE to run well on a Pinebook[0].

[0]https://dot.kde.org/2018/08/22/kde-plasma-arm-laptop-pineboo...

I have one of their SBCs. On paper it has pretty good specs, and it was cheap, but in practice the driver situation is a disaster and all of the good documentation is written in Chinese, if it exists at all.

I have avoided the company ever since.

It is slow. Browsing the web is almost annoying because JavaScript is such a big part of it these days.

The keyboard isn't the greatest, and the touchpad is really bad, and support for something other than the OS it came with is still non-existent, although that is getting somewhat better.

But it is a fully functional laptop, it works, and lasts quite some time on battery and I have been mainly using it to SSH to various servers/devices and doing work from the terminal and for that it is quite adequate.

It's fun to play with, but I wouldn't consider a serious device, not yet at least.

I hope that someone will do something like Pinebook, but with iMX8.M. The SoC used by Purism with their Libre 5 effort. Maybe even Purism themselves. Main advantage is higher hopes that mainline Linux will just work at some closer point.

From what I heard, the keyboard is crap. I was going to buy one, but the shipping made it not worth it.