closing apps rather than leaving them running (phosh)

[kqlnut]

I was quite surprised to find that there was no apparent way of exiting say a Settings attempt etc without  killing the process. At least manjaro plasma has a setting for this.  Or perhaps I don't understand something about manjaro phosh.

What do you mean by that? There are some apps where it makes sense that they keep running in the background. Geary is one example, even if you close the window, you will receive notifications about new e-mail. "Killing the process" may sound drastic, but the kill command by default is just letting the process know to please shut down, just like pressing "exit" or whatever within the app itself. If the process doesn't respond to that, the kill command provides options for more drastic measures too (terminating the process without allowing it to gracefully shut down), but that's not the default.

As for background info, good places to look are the PinePhone wiki (for hardware) and the Mobian wiki (for software/Phosh). You will also find distro specific info on their respective release pages and bug trackers. As already mentioned, this is solely a community effort. You as a customer and we as a community can expect to make whatever we want out of the hardware we bought. Which is in one way a lot more than other phone manufacturers offer, but of course also a lot less comfortable (in this early stage at least).