Time to finally answer
@Askarus: how do others react to the apparatus? And compared to the Pandora? When you mean slow to compile, do you mean loading the libraries and starting or do you mean caching is not that good? Second time a linux program starts fast because it is cached in RAM.
There isn't much reaction. Computer Science students seem to be pretty good at ignoring extraordinary things and people
I mean compile. I'm a beginner, so I do compile and run a lot and it's noticable slower on the Pyra.
I assume it's 2GB?I'm curious to see the battery life difference between 2 and 4.
It's 2 GB.
I don't think there will be so much difference. Turinig USB off however gives me two more hours.
Different theme I assume? The desktop environment doesn't have a direct influence to this. The underlying widget toolkit used by the program is still the same.
Yes, it's an integrated MATE theme. The one you saw as you used my Pyra.
Unfortunately I tried to install Plasma Desktop and it broke the theme engine and programs were not nice again.
I don't have much knowledge about theming and engines, so I can't give you a detailed answer.
BTW @everyone: I tried to install KDE 5 Plasma desktop and it did not install as it requires OpenGL2.
Yes, that rings more of a bell. I think he was doing a big compilation job at 1.whatever GHz to test out thermals.
Does the Pyra ramp down the CPU dynamically the same way the Pandora does? So if the CPU is idle it actually throttles the CPU down to a minimum frequency, so actually it's only ever at the currently selected max if you're 100%ing one core or the other. Or is that work still to be done? I guess that's kind of a fairly common linux feature - my CPU on this netbook is currently running at half speed, which tends to be about as far as x86 chips go down. My build server always starts at max GHz though, and only downclocks if thermally forced to, and after cooling down will rapidly bring the clock up if you do anything with it, which is a bit different to the way my Pandora behaves. Maybe it depends on whether the OS is running on battery or not.
It throttles down as sebt3 mentioned. You can add a CPU monitor to the panel and watch it. However that's unnecessary motion on the screen and uses CPU power. So I don't use it. But I tried and it worked.
Now you have gone and got me excited for the Pyra again.
Get one. There is a good chance you will get hyped again
How would you compare the nubs of the Pyra to the Pandora's nubs? Do they have more travel? How are the clickable centers of them?
Well, the Pyra nubs simply work
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Travel? No Idea. Should be the same. But I'm not very sensitive here I think. At least they don't feel very uncomfortable or strange to me.
They feel like Nubs should feel. The plastic does not feel great so far, but it's still the prototype plastic.
To be honest I did not try the clicks so far...
Nubs can be used for scrolling but unfortunately it's only scroll/don't scroll at a fixed speed what makes it pretty much useless.
With all the set-backs and delays that we have been seeing, I needed this bit of positive news. Thanks
@Askarus.
Me too
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And some news:
I finally asked the ExaGear support to resend me my license key as I lost it ...
Unfortunately it does not install.
The install script wants to install the "alsa-base" package but that's not in our Debian Stretch repo.
