Orange Pi Neo is new handheld powered by AMD and comes preinstalled with Manjaro
Orange Pi Neo is new handheld powered by AMD and comes preinstalled with Manjaro
The great thing about manjaro is, that when it finally bricks itself you can install a proper distro on it. https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
61Even better is you don't even need to wait those three days. You can replace it straight away! :-)
15Three is pretty charitable, I usually run updates on the first day...
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I used Manjaro for about a year around 2019 and it was awful.
I liked its selling point on being based on Arch and having access to AUR, but the official repositories would only have stuff that is vetted to work on the current release of Manjaro (at least that's what I had heard about Manjaro at the time)
The amount of times a package update shit the floor is too many to count.
Before that I was using Ubuntu and for the most part it was fine.
The first distro I used was Mint since the desktop environments, Cinnamon, resembled Windows XP.
3Read through the link i provided. The major point i take issue with, is their package repository. They basically delay every package for a few days to call them 'stable'. This behavior makes it by definition incompatible with the AUR. One of the major reasons so many Manjaro systems break. The other reason is their awful package manager.
I ran my manjaro install for over 3 years but never touched pamac and instead used pacman and paru. I was simply too lazy to set up another distro at the time.
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Available in only black and white colors.
Unusable and not fit for purpose. There needs to be an orange color as an option in order for this product to make any sense whatsoever.
25IDK, what does "Pi" have to do with anything? Orange Pi is a Raspberry Pi-like device running an ARM SOC and their Orange Pi 800 also uses an ARM SOC.
The Orange Pi Neo doesn't have an ARM chip, isn't at all related to the Raspberry Pi, and isn't Orange. It's like their trying to mix the branding of Raspberry Pi and Ayaneo, without understanding what makes either cool.
12Terrible branding because I at first thought it was an underpowered system that would only be good for retro gaming.
9Orange Pi is a brand that has some recognition as a Raspberry Pi knockoff. Presumably it's the same people leveraging that existing brand.
8How dare they use their brand name! Spectrum types will have a conniption fit. Prepare for apoplexy!
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Manjarno isn't even a good choice for desktops though
25My desktop machine would like to disagree.
0Manjaro is the distro I've used for the longest (like 7 years) and it was mostly fine, until I started using AUR, which you shouldn't if you use Manjaro because it will cause problems. Holding packages for 2 weeks also cause problems (hence the AUR issue), it doesn't make it stable. However, if you don't use AUR, it should be fine. Though just FYI, if you want Arch-based there are better distros out there. If you're happy with it, there is no need to change.
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why a desktop distro like Manjaro and not something like Bazzite that's actually made for gaming handhelds?
24Just put bazzite on it, that would be my first step
11Well it's a Manjaro project... it would be pretty weird if they used another Linux distro for their own project.
FWIW I'm guessing it's going to be heavily customized and not bear a great resemblance to desktop Manjaro, like SteamOS doesn't resemble regular Arch.
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This seems like a scam.
The website is image-only.
Not having any selectable text is super sketchy.It uses "Orange Pi" but isn't running on an Orange Pi.
If you go to the real manjaro website: https://manjaro.org/ and search for "neo", this doesn't come up:
https://manjaro.org/search/?query=neo
...or orange pi
https://manjaro.org/search/?query=orange+piEdit: People are saying that is it real. If it is, they really need to make it seem less sketchy.
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They literally had an event lol.
4That event was just a Gif.
4Which is fine and all, but they need to make it seem less sketchy.
There have been handheld gaming devices scams that have had events before, using either the one working prototype, or someone else's device with a difference housing.
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So they called it an "Orange Pi", but it is not an ARM SBC.
That's an interesting choice.
20They have a platform at least? Some day they may release one. The main problem with arm gaming is that you could also do it on a phone+controllers.
1Is that a collab I wonder... Logo looks similar
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Cool, the more Linux-based handhelds, the better! I would prefer a handheld with RK3588S, but this one is interesting too.
16Guess I was wrong, when I surmised in the other thread that it's just a Manjaro image.
10Ah here we fucking go again.
9The last line completely detered me
8Wow!
57840U is a beast. That's what Framework puts in their high-end AMD laptop.
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