Poll: What is your favorite distro/interface for the PinePhone?
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.
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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Favorite distro by percent of voters
Distro | This poll | P64 poll-All | P64 poll-DD
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Mobian | 41% | 22.2% | 27.4%
Manjaro | 29% | 31.2% | 27.2%
Sxmo | 13% | not option | not option
Arch Linux | 9% | 12.7% | 14.9%
PureOS | 7% | not option | not option
Fedora | 4% | 1.5% | 1.4%
LuneOS | 5% | |
postmarketOS | 5% | 20.0% | 21.3%
Ubuntu Touch | 5% | 7.6% | 4.2%
AVMultiPhone | 2% | |
Gentoo | 2% | | 1.3%
GloDroid | 2% | |
KDE Neon | 2% | |
NixOS | 0% | 1.4% | 0.6%
Nemo Mobile | 0% | | 0.3%
Sailfish OS | 0% | | 1.2%Code:
Favorite interface by percent of voters
Interfaces | This poll | P64 poll-All | P64 poll-DD
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Phosh | 70% | 31.2% | 39.3%
Plasma Mobile | 16% | 18.8% | 15.0%
Lomiri | 13% | 9.7% | 6.7%
SXMO (+SWMO) | 13% | 9.6% | 15.5%
Luna Next | 5% | |
Silica | 4% | 2.9% |
Android | 2% | not option | not option
Mate | 2% | not option | not option
Other | | 1.7% | 2.5%
No preference |not option | 24.0% | 18.2%