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Comments at that link seem to indicate that you're stuck running kernel 3.10? That would be a tough pill to swallow.

Apparently there will be an Armbian image with mainline as well: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6538&pid=40821#p...

Well now. That might tip me over into "kids' first laptop" territory.

Yes. It's an Allwinner A64 chip underneath and they have binary blobs which they haven't ported to anything newer than 3.10

The original article says the boards have mainline support. Are you sure?

A mainline kernel won't be of much help you if you don't have GPU drivers.

While not yet in mainline (patches pending), the Lima open source driver for Mali 400 GPUs appears to be usable: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lima-DRM...