Triggering is, I would say, a bit unreliable. I wouldn’t say it’s useless, just unreliable.
It doesn’t work consistently in all situations. That’s about it.
It works for me, in most situations.
The triggering is done in the FPGA, and there’s currently no way to rebuild that code without purchasing a licence, and that I would say is my biggest gripe about it.
I find it a bit more sad that the analog bandwidth has been “strangled” due to some bad hardware design choices. The digital processing part is actually superior but you can’t take advantage of it.
ps: This build has correct frequency units, yes.
The official one (still) doesn’t.
ps2: In the end, it’s a (very nice) expensive toy, yes.
You can’t compare it to a professional dso, but then again, how many good dso’s do you know of this size?