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Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone? - amosbatto - 02-01-2021 I'm curious what people say is their favorite distro and interface on the PinePhone. Because the forum software only allows 10 options in polls and I count 35 different combinations of distros and interfaces, I'm creating 4 different polls, and will combine the four polls when tallying the results: Poll 1: Arch Linux (Phosh) AVMultiPhone (Mate) Fedora (GNOME) Fedora (Phosh) Gentoo (Phosh) GloDroid (Android) KDE Neon (Plasma Mobile) LuneOS (Luna Next) Maemo Leste (Hildon) Manjaro (Lomiri) ---- Poll 2: Manjaro (Phosh) Manjaro (Plasma Mobile) Mobian (jwm) Mobian (lxde) Mobian (openbox) Mobian (Phosh) Mobian (xfce4) Nemo Mobile (Glacier) NixOS (Phosh) OpenMandriva Lx (Plasma Mobile) ---- Poll 3: openSUSE (Phosh) openSUSE (Plasma Mobile) postmarketOS (i3wm) postmarketOS (Kodi) postmarketOS (Lomiri) postmarketOS (Mate) postmarketOS (Phosh) postmarketOS (Plasma Mobile) postmarketOS (Sway) postmarketOS (Xfce4) ----- Poll 4: PureOS (Phosh) Sailfish OS (Silica) Sxmo (Suckless buttons interface) Ubuntu Touch (Lomiri) Other (explain in comments) Please vote in one of the 4 polls. If you can't decide which is your favorite combination of distro/interface, then you can vote for multiple options. If I missed a distro/interface, please vote for "Other" and add a comment to this thread to explain your choice and I will tally it. RE: Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone? - amosbatto - 02-02-2021 Here are the results so far: Code: Distro + Interface | Votes | % votes | % voters Here are the results disaggregated by distro: Code: Distros | Votes | % votes | % voters And here are the results disaggregated by interface: Code: Interfaces | Votes | % votes | % voters And the results by distro family: Code: Distro family | Phosh | Lomiri | Plasma M. | Other | Total RE: Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone? - amosbatto - 02-09-2021 Only 25 people have voted so far, so it is a little early to do any analysis, but I found these results to be interesting:
RE: Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone? - zer0sig - 02-18-2021 I went with LuneOS because I'm stoked about a WebOS-style interface, but I like Manjaro+Plasma so far. Haven't tried actually using LuneOS as a phone yet but it would be great to be able to boot into WebOS. RE: Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone? - amosbatto - 06-20-2021 I updated the tally results with the latest votes. "redrumsir" on reddit pointed out that several people voted twice for Phosh, Lomiri and Plasma Mobile, so I retallied taking out the double votes in the "% voters" for the favorite interface. Since there were 3 double votes for Phosh, that reduces Phosh's lead. With the PinePhone shipping with Manjaro+Plasma Mobile as the preinstalled OS, it will be interesting if Manjaro will overtake Mobian as the favorite distro and Phosh will lose some of its lead. I should probably do another poll in 6 months to see if the situation has changed. RE: Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone? - nelstomlinson - 06-21-2021 I recently got the beta edition Pinephone with Manjaro+Plasma. I haven't tried anything else yet, so this is my favorite and that doesn't mean a thing. I've been using Debian or its derivatives since the 2.2 kernal, so Manjaro is a bit of a change. The touchscreen interface is a really terrible way to operate a computer. Does Phosh make that less worse than Plasma? If so, how, please? RE: Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone? - amosbatto - 12-24-2021 (06-21-2021, 09:31 AM)nelstomlinson Wrote: The touchscreen interface is a really terrible way to operate a computer. Does Phosh make that less worse than Plasma? If so, how, please? For some things, the touchscreen is OK, but when I want to type and especially when I want to use the terminal, I almost always attach a Bluetooth keyboard or I ssh from my PC, so I can use my PC's keyboard. In my opinion, the Maliit virtual keyboard (which is used by Plasma Mobile, WebOS, LuneOS, SailfishOS and is the backend for Lomiri's keyboard) is better than Squeekboard in Phosh, but Maliit was developed by Nokia in 2011 for MeeGo, so it had a major head start. As I see it, Phosh and Plasma Mobile are under heavy development and improving rapidly, whereas Lomiri is more complete, but it is having more trouble maintaining its code, and I see the same problem with LuneOS (which is based on the free parts of LG's WebOS). I think that the best interface is SailfishOS, but I won't use it because of its proprietary Silica interface. Another problem is oFono, which is used by Plasma Mobile, WebOS/LuneOS, SailfishOS and Lomiri, but it isn't as well maintained as ModemManager. Phosh is based on ModemManager and Plasma Mobile is switching to ModemManager. Phosh has a substantial lead over the other interfaces in this poll, which I think is due to the fact that Purism is paying for its development and Phosh was designed to be a thin overlay on top of GTK/GNOME, which is already maintained by the big Linux companies (IBM/Red Hat, Canonical, Google and SUSE), so Phosh has a lot more corporate support than the other interfaces and it is easier to maintain and incorporate into existing distros. By getting rid of libhybris and switching to ModemManager, Plasma Mobile is getting easier to maintain and incorporate into distros, and UBports is working to get Lomiri incorporated into Arch and Debian, so they are all working to break out of their silos, but Phosh was designed from the beginning for close compatibility with an existing desktop stack. RE: Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone? - ryo - 12-28-2021 (12-24-2021, 10:44 AM)amosbatto Wrote: ... Purism is paying for its development and Phosh was designed to be a thin overlay on top of GTK/GNOME ... they are all working to break out of their silos, but Phosh was designed from the beginning for close compatibility with an existing desktop stack. I should say that SXMO is like Phosh in that regard, minus the corporate support that is. They simply took DWM (which is already distro independent), optimized the interface to be more suitable for smartphones, and that's it. Phosh is basically an alternative Gnome shell, which is functionality that has been around since Gnome 3, and I guess so far barely anyone made use of it other than the Gnome developers themselves and Canonical. Don't get me started at separating something that used to be glued together, as a developer I know very well how much of a disaster this is. Best is to just develop in components from day 1, so you don't need to deal with having to remove the glue later on. RE: Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone? - amosbatto - 02-01-2022 I want to thank everyone for voting in this poll, which only had 56 voters. Sadly, the MyBB software used by the PINE64 forum only allows one poll per thread with a limit of 10 options, so it is hard to do proper polls here. I'm going to stop tallying the results for this poll, because I think it is best for everyone to refer to the far more comprehensive poll results that PINE64 just released with 3079 respondents. I was struck by the differences between the results of this poll and the PINE64 poll. A very high percentage selected Mobian and Phosh in this poll, and I think that is probably because a lot more Mobian users visit this forum, because Mobian doesn't have its own forum, whereas there are separate forums for Arch, Manjaro, postmarketOS, UBports, Sailfish OS, Sxmo, etc. The Mobian on PinePhone subforum has three times more posts than any other subforum under PinePhone Software. Since Phosh is the default interface for Mobian, that helped drive up the percentage that report Phosh is their favorite interface in this poll. The biggest difference between the two polls is that 70% of the voters in this poll selected Phosh as their favorite interface, whereas 31.2% selected Phosh in the PINE64 poll. In the PINE64 poll, Phosh was the favorite interface, but not by huge margins like in this poll. One difference is that this poll allowed people to select multiple options, whereas the PINE64 poll didn't. If we look at difference between all respondents and the people who report using the PinePhone as a "daily driver" (DD) in the PINE64 poll, then we get a little closer to the results of this poll. I suspect that most of the people who voted in this poll are hardcore PinePhone users, and the PINE64 poll found that people who use the PinePhone as a daily driver are more likely to use Phosh as their interface than Plasma Mobile and Lomiri. 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