[Brad]

That’s an very broad question. Apps to do what?

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reply to the OP, check out https://sigle.io

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Try Manjaro XFCE then.  I’ve heard many ppl with other machines with touchpad issues with Ubuntu said it worked with Manjaro.

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Bitcoin now has smart contracts functionality – see the Stacks ($STX) project

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Ubuntu Mate

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Have a look here and post about the problem there. This guy Jeremy is a Linux WiFi expert, same guy posts on the Ubuntu and LinuxMint forums helping people fix their networking issues.  The first thing I would do is try booting with Live-USB burned with the latest distro of Lubuntu and/or LinuxMint Mate.  Also search the manjaro forum if you really must use that distro.

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Have you verified which WiFi device you have?  Have you looked at the dmesg output to see what errors there may be?

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Dominique wrote:

Daniel did you purchase the Bmax 13″? is this ok? best deal?

also, interested if touchpad and other things working with the Bmax 13 with Linux OS.

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Good info/work. I would try Lubuntu v19.10. I think it’s has a pretty recent kernel and it will prob run the fastest (lightest) of all the others with the Lxqt desktop.

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Andrei Gutu wrote:

Hi,@statik I have the BMAX Y11. It’s configuration is similar to Teclast F5, but not identical. BMAX Y11 has the SSD Foresee on 256Gb(but you can upgrade it easily if you need) and 8Gb RAM. Very nice device. And looks great with the small and accurate logo(in comparison with Teclast F5). Also it works with Linux. But it is without the ‘Backlit keyboard’, the keyboard is nice but without backlit. I never use the backlit keyboard and apologize that it is not so desired feature.

  Which Linux distribution version and type of desktop?  thanks.

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Probably Lubuntu 19.04 (with LXQt desktop) will also run very well.

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I’m trying to help a friend who is having trouble upgrading M.2 SSD in his i35.  He bought the WD Blue M.2 SATA SSD but it’s not being recognized.  Basically all he did was create a Windows USB install/boot drive and replaced his existing SSD with the WD SSD.  Is there some setting in the BIOS that needs to be changed?  (eg. change boot drive setting from RAID to AHCI) or something like that?   I cannot find anyone who has upgraded the SSD and what the installation procedure is.
Or if it’s just something strange and specific to the WD Blue SSD?  Ie, other drives like Samsung, Crucial, etc. are recognized fine out of the box?

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I’m trying to help a friend who is having trouble upgrading M.2 SSD in his i35.  He bought the WD Blue M.2 SATA SSD but it’s not being recognized.  Is there some setting in the BIOS that needs to be changed?  (eg. change boot drive setting from RAID to AHCI) I cannot find anyone who has upgraded the SSD and what the installation procedure is.  Or if it’s just something strange and specific to the WD Blue.  Ie, other drives like Samsung, Crucial, etc. are recognized fine out of the box?

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Mangix wrote:

The battery died. It’s doubled its size and crooked the laptop body. GB agreed to send me a new battery to replace swollen one. I finally start to wonder why haven’t I just simply bought an after-market laptop from bigger brands

The Lenovo IdeaPad 330S-14IKB (81F4) with 8th-gen Core i3-8130U is a good deal. You can get it in various configuration of HD and/or NVMe SSD.
Or if you want bigger 15″ screen and 8th-gen Core i5, the 330S-15IKB.  Memory can be upgraded to 20GB RAM.  And at least with this you won’t ever have a problem getting replacement parts.  Also aluminum body and runs Linux perfectly.  Even the lowest priced model with Pentium 4415U CPU performs better than the Celeron N4100.

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LOL, yeah everyone does that!  /sarc
Could be due to no screen connected.

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