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I just bought a pinetab 2 and they don't even have a functional WiFi driver for the chip they use. Would not recommend
Honestly, why did you expect anything different?
What do you mean? Ofc you'd expect the hardware you buy to actually work, like in all other devices.
You're clearly new to Pine64 😉
Because it advertised WiFi and Bluetooth on the website and there was no mention of the lack of drivers anywhere to be found
Pine64 is known for very shoddy software support and almost none of their devices have every bit of the hardware working on release, if any. A missing wifi driver is too be expected with them, not an exception.