Every Distro/Image has another problem

[hmk]

Just wondering, has everybody managed to find a Distro/Image that is pretty much usable out of the box?

- Latest Armbian Ubuntu (https://armbian.com/boards/olimex-teres-a64): No sound, no trackpad.
- xenial-teres-bspkernel-20190121_144941_EET-1_hdmi_out_v1_5.zip: Sluggish (on microSD), takes up plenty of disk space (and you run out quickly when trying upgrades), FireFox very old and not supported by YouTube, upgrading breaks the system and FireFox.
- Android (android_teres_rev4.zip): Ancient, no sound (have not tried it out, but reported in this forum).

All in all a pretty tedious experience. I only wanted to have a Laptop with sound that can play YouTube videos and have a running slideshow (with Google Docs).

[LubOlimex]

The only thing left to try is "teres_armbian_v1.0_preliminary.zip".

That being said I am not sure if the hardware is sufficient for smooth YouTube experience especially for higher bitrate.

The best bet for heavy video decoding tasks like this is to see if somebody got the LibreElec working for the A64 chip or Teres laptop. My personal experience for video playback with LibreElec and A20 boards was the best.

[binutzu]

My Teres-i is installed with this: https://box.redpill.dk/images/nonfree/
As i did it long time ago ... i think it is this nonfree-teres1-bookworm-v1.1.14.img.gz but not 100% sure.

However, as the distro was getting older, i upgraded it using debian upgrade procedure and it worked well. One thing i had to do for the upgrade or even for usual "apt update" was to enlarge the boot partition. This was easy for me to achieve because the image runs from a sd card - so i did that partition resize on a different computer.

What i also manage to do "lately" is to make the sound work with internal speakers.
I can provide some details in case someone is interested. Regarding other features,
what i did not see so far, in any of the "mainline" distros, is the HDMI out working. One can find few claims that this works, with some patches etc. but i would not give 2 cents on those (except the person from open suse).

Bottom line from me: Debian works fine - easy install was from https://box.redpill.dk/images/nonfree/