> Yeeloongs have a horrible battery time, 2h, more than some users need.
> because some hardware feature > is not fully implemented yet. I don't know any such feature (there is a kernel option to use a less reliable timer that saves some power, it's probably not important enough). > They also have no 2D/3D acceleration, > because they use a graphicscard that requires proprietary firmware (it > seems this makes every GUI you try to put on it extremely slow). The YeeLoongs with Loongson 2F have ancient GPUs without 3D acceleration (and 2D acceleration that practically makes it slower with modern software), the ones with Loongson 3A (not supported yet by any free distro) have AMD GPUs with a similar issue to what you describe. It's not "extermely" slow with XFCE, although this makes videos unplayable unless using distro-specific patches. > He doesn't use the GUI most of > the time, almost exclusively reads email and people send him whole > websites per email if he cannot easily access them otherwise (too much > Flash, too fancy design to read it in a browser for the CLI, etc.). I believe his reasons for this are traveling (browsers need longer network access than batch mail) and efficiency: he gets very many emails. I don't have such needs nor responsibilities, using an older IceWeasel browser is ok for me, while it's slower than on new and fast x86 machines. I agree that free boot firmware is the only reason to get a YeeLoong now, maybe except for MIPS development.
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