Installing r2kaw and Tow-Boot to the SPI

[dukla2000]

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What is the camera situation like for the PPP with Arch? On pmOS edge it got a lot better with the kernel update, but the back camera stops working after a suspend. And you mention you have pmOS on the PP, since it's so under-powered - does Arch use more power or something? TIA.

Megapixels is installed for PPP/arch/SXMO but doesn't start at all - missing pinephone-pro.ini
I am not particularly bothered - I do recall some chatter about an alternative camera application coming (maybe, someday ...) Mostly if I am clicking a shutter it is wildlife and lots and lots of optical zoom is my toy.

On paper pmOS is leaner (more minimalist) than arch. I can't say I really notice it though. I think at some stage I timed booting to the same point and pmOS was a bit faster. But really for my usage fairly academic: on SXMO I tend to open Telegram in 1 window, Firefox in a second and LiFeRea in a 3rd, leaving a 4th for geary or terminal or whatever. In practice Firefox slugs most resources (CPU, memory) when it gets a couple of tabs open and and marginal OS gains are trumped. But once all the applications are loaded the PP is pretty usable.

Overall I am pretty hitched to arch as it works for my desktop and I have learned to compile the applications (gnucash, fotocx) that may be in Ubuntu or Debian repositories but not in arch. But pretty sure I would have a bit to learn if I tried to do the same thing on pmOS. Also have arch on my partner's laptop.