Why do you use mobian?

[ryo]

Three reasons:
1. It's based on Debian GNU/Linux, which I like as a project/community.
2. It's based on Debian GNU/Linux, and I already only use Debian (and Ubuntu) based Systems (and I like apt) - I'm not familiar with Manjaro/Arch, Alpine Linux or others...
3. It had the reputation as "most stable" PinePhone distro when I had to choose one, and on a daily driver: stability > performance
...and - AFAIK! - it still is the most stable option.

Forgot 2 points  :
4. Mobian has Full Disk Encryption (some others like ubuntu touch/ubports don't).
5. Mobian development is currently really focused on PinePhone (ubports, pmOS, Plasma Mobile for example don't). This is connected to point 3. I guess.

Plamo is focusing on the PinePhone, hence their partnership with PINE64.
However, as with everything with KDE, they tend to release completely broken proof of concept software to the public first, and then take many years to slowly turn it into software competing with huge closed source commercial software.

Remember Plamo half a decade ago?
Well I do, it was literally a very slow brick with an app drawer.
Right now it only needs a little bit more before it gets on par with Android.

Kdenlive is the same thing; it used to be even lower tech than Windows Movie Maker, but now it's like using an open source version of Premiere Pro for free.