But first I had to switch off the UEFI BIOS. Which is indeed great, and took me from there. If you don’t already know how to install Xubuntu, then please read this great tutorial, which applies as much to Xubuntu as to Ubuntu. I found the install instructions for Xubuntu hard to find and sketchy, but they are good enough to feature this hint I uses Xubuntu LTS 20.04, downloading the iso and putting this onto a USB stick using balenaEtcher. It was surprisingly easy to load once I quit trying to install on the UEFI BIOS. The Ubuntu drivers seem to have fixed that now However, I had heard bad things about trying Linux on the HP stream, because the Wifi card is very proprietary. I had already run the FLdigi and WSJT-X software on the HP Stream in Windows so I knew it was capable of decent performance, better than the Pi4 which struggles a bit to decode WSJT-X in a reasonable time. It’s bad enough connecting the computer to the radio via analogue audio connectors 1, having to connect the Pi plus screen to a Bluetooth keyboard plus some sort of battery to USB-C power contraption gets a bit much in the field although it all works fine on the bench. I had been tinkering with a Raspberry Pi4 for amateur radio field use, but wrangling a Pi in the field for things like SOTA is a mess, because a Pi plus all the odds and sods you need to make it work is a collection of parts flying in loose formation, and unlike a DC3 they don’t always work well together. I did like the light weight and silent operation, but the overall gutless performance and slower and slower startup was bad. It’s a shame, because it’s otherwise serviceable, but totally non-upgradeable – the ‘hard drive’ is an eMMC soldered to the board. Pretty soon I had to use an outboard hard drive to be able to update windows, and by about 2019 even that didn’t work. And it had Windows 10, and 32Gb is only just enough to get Windows on. It was a bad move from the get-go, because the hard disk is only 32Gb.
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