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Jim Jones @[email protected] · 2026-04-28 · 05:25 UTC

I installed @linuxmint Debian Edition this evening. I overwrote the Ubuntu Desktop that I had installed over the weekend.

It's taking a little getting used to as it does things a little differently, but it's not too bad.

I moved the panel to the top of the screen as I have grown accustomed to it from my years of using Ubuntu. Also I had to bump up the fonts to aid my aging eyes.

Otherwise. It's been a nice simple shift.

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Charlotte Aten @[email protected] · 2025-07-28 · 17:48 UTC

In 2021 I bought a small Chinese ultrabook, the One Netbook A1. You can find a review at https://liliputing.com/one-netbook-a1-handheld-computer-preview/ and the official site for the company appears to be http://1netbook.com. I wanted a small computer with USB ports so I could teach a hybrid course with a USB webcam pointed at the blackboard.

It was a bit hard to get the One Netbook A1. Despite positive Western reviews, no American company was selling it anymore, and I couldn't order it directly from the the PRC. I had to use a European intermediary in order to obtain it. I would joke that the ultrabook had the PRC's version of our NSA's spyware built in, so I wasn't supposed to have it. In any case, it worked well for my purposes and I had fun using it over the next couple years.

I was letting the machine collect dust for a while, and I finally decided to give it new life by switching it from Linux Mint to Linux Mint Debian Edition. When I did so, I found that (again) the screen wanted to be in tablet mode and I couldn't get it to switch through the Display menu. I had an applet that solved this before, but it was no longer available. I ended up writing my own script for switching screen layouts quickly. In the process, I found https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/krgijw/linux_on_the_one_netbook_a1/ which says that the Reddit One Netbook community is «banned». Maybe my joke was more right than I thought?

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