02-14-2021, 05:14 AM
I’ve got a pine tab sitting still in its box because I’m so dissatisfied with with current OS images.
Ubuntu Touch is adequate but lacks... a lot. It really feels like an OS without a community. I go to add software and it’s a sea of outdated and broken web app wrappers as far as the eye can see. I can’t easily find clear documentation for how to just install or compile normal software. It feels so bare bones I basically never use it. Sad since I was so exited I bought 2 pine tabs.
Mobian reminds me of Debian kFreeBSD... it’s a weird offshoot and I’m sure some people love it. But I don’t... 90% of my opinion is probably because because I’m stuck with phosh. Which feels like it’s fighting me at every single interaction. About the only thing that I feel it does adequately is register touch inputs, everything past that feels wrong and/or broken to me. It’s just not for me.
SailfishOS seems to require some weird compile your own install image dance, I spent an hour trying to find the pine tab image to download but got no where (this could be my own Google fu failing me, but that’s just indicative of a different problem, bad documentation)
Arch seemed promising but I’m not interested in installing a customisable distribution that doesn’t give me a choice to customise beyond phosh. I tried the Plasma Mobile arch image I found and it didn’t boot for me.
It frustrates me that the PinePhone has such ludicrously excellent support while my awesome PineTab has had nearly nothing since launch... we still don’t have an experimental plasma mobile image on any distribution.
Ubuntu Touch is adequate but lacks... a lot. It really feels like an OS without a community. I go to add software and it’s a sea of outdated and broken web app wrappers as far as the eye can see. I can’t easily find clear documentation for how to just install or compile normal software. It feels so bare bones I basically never use it. Sad since I was so exited I bought 2 pine tabs.
Mobian reminds me of Debian kFreeBSD... it’s a weird offshoot and I’m sure some people love it. But I don’t... 90% of my opinion is probably because because I’m stuck with phosh. Which feels like it’s fighting me at every single interaction. About the only thing that I feel it does adequately is register touch inputs, everything past that feels wrong and/or broken to me. It’s just not for me.
SailfishOS seems to require some weird compile your own install image dance, I spent an hour trying to find the pine tab image to download but got no where (this could be my own Google fu failing me, but that’s just indicative of a different problem, bad documentation)
Arch seemed promising but I’m not interested in installing a customisable distribution that doesn’t give me a choice to customise beyond phosh. I tried the Plasma Mobile arch image I found and it didn’t boot for me.
It frustrates me that the PinePhone has such ludicrously excellent support while my awesome PineTab has had nearly nothing since launch... we still don’t have an experimental plasma mobile image on any distribution.