Hi,
first of all thank you for the great work. Let me tell you my story. I bought a Pinebook laptop some months ago and in my spare time I was playing with numerous OS-es. Installing and testing one by one. In total I've tested every single OS and so far Armbian is the winner. Why? Well because it is super fast, very stable, lightweight and with very simple xfce desktop look and feel.
Now, like everything in life, there are some bad sides of Armbian. I am not sure if I will say something false or strange but I don't consider my self expert for hardware nor Linux world. So far I have also Raspberry Pi with Raspbian installed and don't see any bad sides.
So, to get to the topic. Problem that I see is Ubuntu and architecture. Armbian is build on Ubuntu version 16.04 together on Pinebook with arm64 architecture. What is very limitation in terms of packages. Almost every single package that I would like to install eather doesn't exist because of the arm64 architecture (on ppa repositories) or doesn't exist at all. Of course I can install some old and outdated package, but for an example who would like to have Kodi version 15 installed, knowing that currently Kodi developers developers are developing version 18.
Alternative to missing latest packages would be to compile nad build from the source, but then I loose having abiliti to update packages by simple apt-get upgrade command. The only package which I compiled was xrdp because I was hopping to have abiliti to connect remotely to my Pinebook with my Android phone or from Windows 10 laptop but with version 0.9.1 (latest buildable version on Ubuntu 16.04) it doesn't work so I use VNC.
In my brain, next logical question is comming to my mind: Can I expect latest ubuntu release for my Pinebook somewhere in the future, and when? Basically that is my biggest concern.
However, thank you one more time for great work. I hope that you will continue to work in long term, so that I don't need to switch to some other OS on my Pinebook or even give my Pinebook to my kid because otherwise I don't see any good enought OS for me to be usefull in my daily life.
All best.
