04-09-2022, 01:36 PM
(04-09-2022, 10:28 AM)tckosvic Wrote: Chime in with your experience. Have you put PPP aside, with discouragement, until problems get sorted out and straight forward solutions are available or are you using it?
tom kosvic
There are 10 distros available for PPP with 3 different UI's (KDE, Phosh, SXMO),
none of them is really working for anything,
it is very time consuming to figure out if something is broken by OS, by Kernel or by UI.
Its even harder to find out where to place a bug report or to get the info that the bug is known.
I do not know what pine64 is doing (except promoting product features which are not there, yet),
all I know is that there are a handful people working on some stuff, but its a huge disadvantage that there is no lead distro with some lead devs, no roadmap etc.
Don't get me wrong, I love the concept of the Linux phone, the keyboard case, the convergence mode, the foss, but I do not know how to debug spi, kernel or write drivers... so its a bit a waste of time.... sometimes I am compiling stuff to check if it runs (and chat with the devs if it does not), which is cool, but what's going on with GPS, with mobile data, with sleep mode, with GSM?
It would be so great to have some kind of board on top of this forum, where we can see what is working, what not, which things are on the roadmap, which coders are working on what and how we can support them, what we could test and report and so on....