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I'm already seeing the reasons why I stopped using my pocket chip the first time.

No effort has been made to make the small screen usable beyond some really ineffective cosmetic tweaks.

@ajroach42 the browser has scroll bars instead of touch sensitivity. It treats your touch input like a mouse, so you have to actually touch the scroll bars.

No right click (sometimes control click works) no middle click (which is a deal breaker on most Linux desktops IMO.)

Everything has big ol chunky menus covering valuable screen real estate.

You can't add items to the built in menu system without modifying it. You can't even open a web browser without going to the terminal.

Andrew Roach @ajroach42

And the documentation is incomplete.

( problems with the )

Don't let my tirade make you think I don't like it.

It's adorable! Little keyboard and screen and wifi and a full Linux subsystem that actually mostly works. I'm enamored, but I'm constantly disappointed in small ways.

I need to improve the case and keyboard myself. I need to find/write better software. I need to document it.

I want to love the thing. I don't yet.