"Chinese repos" is a very charitable interpretation of the Google drive links they used to distribute the os. It seemed like it was on the free plan too, it often didn't work because it tripped the maximum downloads per month limit.

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Beretta_Vexee 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's always better than a link in the sticky post on the manufacturer's phpbb forum. I bought some audio equipment directly from a Chinese company, and everything look like a hobbies/student project.

	▲	margalabargala 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Is it? A google drive link to an OS image is worse IMO
	▲	copx 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I bought a MiniPC directly from a Chinese company (an AOOSTAR G37) and the driver downloads on their website are MEGA links. I thought only piracy and child porn sites used those.. I am somewhat amazed how you can manufacture such expensive high tech equipment yet are too cheap to setup a proper download service for the software, which would be very simple and cheap compared to making the hardware itself. Maybe it is a Chinese mentality thing where the first question is always "What is the absolutely cheapest way to do this?" and all other concerns are secondary at best. ..which does not inspire confidence in the hardware either. Maybe Chinese customers are different, see this, and think "These people are smart! Why pay more if you don't have to!".

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ekianjo 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> "Chinese repos" is a very charitable interpretation of the Google drive links they used to distribute the os.

"Chinese repos" refer to the fact that the debian repos links for updates point to custom Huawei servers.

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ekianjo 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> it often didn't work because it tripped the maximum downloads per month limit.

it always work if you login into a Google account prior to downloading. If you don't, indeed the downloads will regularly fail.

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threeducks 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> it always work[s]

That was not my experience, at least for very large files (100+ GB). There was a workaround (that has since been patched) where you could link files into your own Google drive and circumvent the bandwidth restriction that way. The current workaround is to link the files into a directory and then download the directory containing the link as an archive, which does not count against the bandwidth limit.

	▲	ekianjo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I see. I never had to download such large files from Drive. For files up to 10Gb I never had any issue though.