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egorfinetoday at 10:07 AM1 replyview on HN

I have a GPD Mini, the very first preproduction one.

Stock Ubuntu runs just fine since about 24.04 or 23.10 (do not remember). Keyboard is fine. Trackpoint instead of a cheap trackpad which is great. Touch screen.

And incredibly mind-bogglingly slow eMMC storage. Like, makes it impossible to use.

So as cute as it is, I haven't found any use for it for the last ~10 years that I own it. Maybe I have used it for emergency ssh from the mountain hike once or twice.


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hexagonwintoday at 10:42 AM

maybe try a linux distro like tinycore or porteus? it puts the rootfs in ram so things run insanely fast, and sync changes to disk before shutdown

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