JrRockeTer

Hi all.
I've discovered Vivaldi Browser for arm. A fork of Chromium.
There is a armhf version and a arm64 version.
Youtube playback with this is a lot better. I've tested it on the NanoPi M4.
The same video in Chromium had 2/3 dropped frames. (10 frames/s) 1080p video
With Vivaldi browser you get 1/3 dropped frames. (20 frames/s)
A lot better experience.

Here you can download it.
https://vivaldi.com/nl/blog/snapshots/vivaldi-1-15-rc-2/
 
Here the source where I found it. From Meveric @ Odroid. Also explanation of how to install. No wget, and change filename to the file you've downloaded for gdebi. Or use gdebi package installer.(not tested)
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=29229

I tried in armhf on the M4 in armhf Lubuntu, worked great. Also tried the arm64 in Armbian Stretch. Also great.
I didn't find any posts about Vivaldi in the Armbian forum. I thought it could be helpful.
Cheers

If you don't like autologin in Armbian Ubuntu desktop, or if yo want to have several desktops to choose, here is how I did this.
Tested on legacy image, but I belive that same setup should work on mainline too.
 
1. Install ubuntu desktop image on MMC (I did it using Etcher)
2. Install display manager. Because of simplicity, I choose LXDM.
   sudo apt-get install lxdm
   
3. Set default session and disable nodm
   Edit /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
   Find line:
     session=/usr/bin/startlxde
   Replace it with:
     session=/usr/bin/startxfce4
     
   Fix for XFCE session entry from LXDM session menu:
     Open the /usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop file with a text editor.
     Find the name value and replace the space with a dash or hyphen.
     
   Disable nodm:
     sudo systemctl disable nodm
 
4. Reboot.
   
Now you should have login screen, and after login you should have XFCE4 desktop running.
 
Optionally, you can install more desktops:
 
MATE
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extras indicator-application atril desktop-base engrampa mate-applets mate-media mate-notification-daemon mate-power-manager mate-screensaver mate-system-monitor mate-themes caja-gksu caja-image-converter caja-open-terminal caja-sendto caja-share caja-wallpaper dconf-editor mate-gnome-main-menu-applet mate-netspeed mate-sensors-applet mate-user-share
 
LXDE
apt-get install lxde lxde-common lxsession lxsession-logout lxlauncher
 
If you did all of this, you can choose to login in XFCE4, Mate, LXDE or OpenBox desktop.
Best regards! 
 

@JMCC The video is ready.
I don't think it will get too many views. But it can help other frustrated users
Thanks for the help.
 

Cool, thanks!

Thanks to @NicoD my sound problems are fixed, still have issues with bluetooth but that is for next weekend!

Thanks everyone. Bummer about having to remove it each time to change eMMC... And, am left with 4 nuts that I don't know what to do with but it is all put together, thanks @pkfox for the instructions and pictures @Da Alchemist for pictures and more ideas and of course as always for @NicoD without which I would not be moving forward very quickly with my SBC adventures!
 

Thanks @NicoD Your videos are good, I subscribed and look forward to seeing more on the nanopi and the N2, I also must look if you have Asus Tinker board ones as I set up my DMZ on that and am about to set up a LEMP server with Nginx.
Also thanks for the info on RecalBox and I'll look at the RockPI videos
Thanks

Thanks heaps for this, I'll have a look this weekend (I'm at work)
 
Looking forward to moving on with it.