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        No, it’s licensed. RISC-V isn’t necessarily open sourced either. It’s an open standard, but you can develop your own proprietary designs on it.

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    Whoa! So RISC-V is already that far? We can have tablets? Nice.

    I’m almost in “shut up and take my money” -mode already.

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    That’s pretty cool. What’s the battery life like on this thing?

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      Without ever having used it, I can say with complete confidence that it’s probably bad. It’s not an optimised consumer level device, it’s a product aimed at enthusiasts and tinkerers who want to implement Linux on a new platform and form factor.

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    I remember getting a PineBook Pro when it came out. Seemed like a great machine but the screen failed in less than a week. Thankfully they refunded me but it was disappointing.

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      Mine is still working. Armbian is great on it, though I still wish I could get hardware video decoding working in-browser. Best I can do right now is GPU OpenGL acceleration, but any site with video maxes out the CPU and kills battery life.

      That all said, I love the keyboard on it.

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        Armbian was the most promising when I had mine, but still wasn’t ready. I just couldn’t get into manjaro, but every time I loaded a new OS the screen would die, come back, flciker and a “shadow” around the perimeter of the screen.

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      I still use my Pinebook Pro as daily driver (next to a desktop pc) and I‘m actually quit happy with it. It’s not the most powefull machine but it does it‘s job.

      Also I never really experimented with all the special distros. Nowadays I just run plane Debian on it and everything seems fine.

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    Does the pinetab v have working WiFi drivers? The arm version doesn’t