Linux

In essence it's not much different than regular Linux distributions. There are some quirks related to pmOS being a derivative of Alpine Linux. It uses musl instead of glibc, so don't expect meaningful NVidia support. Other than that, it's regular kernel, regular Mesa. (Native package selection is much smaller than anything mainstream, Flatpak works, though.)

I couldn't get a stable WiFi connection using WPA3 Personal. Not sure what the fault is. Switching the connection over to WPA2 in Plasma's Network settings did the trick. This PC's trackpad and touchscreen work absolutely fine but – and I think that's how the hardware is designed and nothing to do with pmOS – the trackpad doesn't show up as trackpad but as a mouse. So I cannot reconfigure it to use two finger scrolling. Scrolling is always on the left edge.

Websites claim that this PC supports bluetooth but the adapter doesn't show. As I wrote in another comment, I suspect a hardware defect, given how abnormally unstable Windows 10 was. I need to get my hands on a USB Bluetooth dongle. I use my headphones via USB in the meantime which physically tethers me to the device but works fine.

How do I report self-harm on lemmy?

They way it ran Win10 was definitively infuriating. Firefox, too.

pmOS + Falkon is fine.

Well it's Ultra low end. Hyper low end is an Intel 8088

pmOS / Alpine Linux is definitively a bit outside my comfort zone. The apk package manager is so weird with its add and del commands instead of install and remove everyone else uses.

I didn't read much about phones and ARM tablets but I got the impression it's like flashing a custom Android ROM.

I'm in the same boat, have a 2012, can't even get through the instructions.

It came with a factory reset version of Win10 but that ran so insanely bad, it kept crashing which to this degree isn't normal even for Windows which is why I suspect faulty hardware.

I’ve an old eeepc Ive been wanting to resurrect. Maybe I’ll try this on there.

Other than the installer wiping all the data, there is little to lose.

The graphical installer is a it bare bones but easy to use. Setup is slow because in the background it generates a disk image of packages that are being downloaded and the write speed of my USB drive was a big bottle neck. Selection of native packages isn't the greatest but pmOS comes with Flathub configured out of the box. (I'm usually a proponent of Flatpak but being so memory constrained, I refrain from the overhad of loading Flatpak runtimes into memory.

Nah mate, it's hard to be too pessimistic these days. That's probably just the right amount of pessimism.

I think devices like the Framework 12 continue to be available but RAM and SSD costs won't necessarily mean that lower end performance will not necessarily mean afforable, at least all the way through 2026.