Is Manjaro Plasma stable for anyone?

[projectcato]

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the choice of Manjaro and Plasma had more to do with the fact that both Manjaro and KDE target the Pinephone directly (and thus provide support for it), rather than them being the most advanced or favorite users choice. Although, of course, with direct support from upstream, you can expect them to quickly become the most advanced choice, and thus the users favorite, so that's a reasonable choice.

In any case, if you want to help, providing quality bug reports is something that would greatly help those projects, and community as a whole. One thing you could do, when you will reinstall (don't think too much about it, that's exactly the fun thing to do with a Pinephone - we can change OS easily, let's enjoy and abuse it!), is to try a fresh version of Manjaro/Plasma and see if you're running in the same problems. If you can reproduce your problem, you have the foundation for a good bug report. Next, you need to figure exact steps to reproduce it that other people may try (if I install this software, then leave the phone on suspend for this amount of hours, then it takes this amount of minutes to wake up, while it takes only this amount of minutes to wake up if I only let it sleep for this amount of minutes). And finally, you need to decide who should receive that bug report. Manjaro? KDE? One way to decide it is to try other variations on your phone, like Manjaro/Phosh and PostmarketOS/Plasma. If your problem still happen with the former, you need to submit the bug report to Manjaro ; if the problem happen with the latter, you need to submit it KDE. In case of doubt, it's better to submit it to the distro (Manjaro), package maintainers will probably be able to tell if it's an upstream bug or not.

EDIT: oh, and of course, search first in their bug trackers if that problem has not already been reported You may even find there ways to solve it if it had.

Big part of my frustration is I thought "yeah, I'll alt-function into a terminal , grab thorough bug reports and go!" I can't get the keyboard case to work (not 100% what's going on, but I think I may have a faulty pogo pin), and, even with a USB-C equipped keyboard, the whole thing isn't very helpful when the phone is locked up or dead. Guessing I need to rig up or buy a 3.5mm UART adapter and go that way.