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>>todsac+(OP)
On one hand, I understand your frustration here, for sure.

But on the other hand, Pine devices have severely lacked for being able to tell users what the best place to start is. I've wanted to back to my PinePhone a few times and had to ask, like, what is in the best state to use, and nobody could tell me.

Updating my PineBook Pro took a ton of investigating because the simple explanation of how to get from what mine shipped with to what new ones shipped with was hard to find, discussion of what mine shipped with was nearly gone already, and the process for upgrading it also had since changed!

As someone who doesn't build distros, your post is actually really nice for me, now I know I should just install Manjaro on my Pine devices! About time they picked something.

>>ocdtre+49
I don't think the author meant that the problem was Pine "standardizing" on a single distro, but standardizing on a distro which has done (comparatively, AFAIK) little in terms of active software and driver development. By diverting people to a distro which mostly siphons up the work done by others, they risk poisoning the well and driving away the developers actually writing device drivers and infrastructure.

>>spijda+F9
This is exactly right. And also a distro that is just refusing to disagree with pine64 when decisions are made that impact all distributions negatively