02-18-2020, 03:46 AM
(02-14-2020, 09:31 AM)Zweitaktmotor Wrote: AND THE WINNER IS...
Postmarket Phosh
First of all, I am quite impressed with the speed of it. The system will start up in 30 seconds and simple apps such as Calculater and Settings take an incredible 3 seconds to load (Compare that with Ubuntu!). PM Phosh also can already do things that the others can't, such as switch from portrait to landscape, handle SMS and even run Firefox. I don't mind the simple screen layout, this is all I need.
Where it falls short at the moment is that the moblie data modem is always on, draining the battery, and some screens have not yet been adjusted to the Pinephone screen size, leading to situations when essential buttons such as "Done" are off the screen. But I am sure over time these issues will be addressed.
I will of course keep an eye on the other options, but for now, PM Phosh stays in my phone until the next version comes out.
Yeah, I have settled in it as well, for now. For me the criteria was if I am able to use command line apps. It turned out that UB doesn't actually have Ubuntu repos available straight up, but instead needs some app called Libertine to run common cli apps I have come to require from my distros. I am suspicious of adding such an extra layer in between (although, this is not really educated opinion at all) so I ditched UB for this. After that I tested Manjaro for some time, but it got a bit annoying since the phone functionality (like: shut down the display with a button) is not there yet, so it's still more desktop than I could handle in a device I am hoping to carry with me. Then I tried the phosh version of PMos and was surprised by how fast it turns on and how responsive it seems. It also has many of the apps I need from alpine repo, and they seem to work, so I am happy with it for now. The only problem I have it is that the keyboard doesn't give me the extra keys (like tab, ^c, ^d, arrow keys), so it can be a bit exhausting experience on the terminal.
In the long run I assume I will go back to Manjaro. Been using it as my main distro for a couple of years and before I had arch, so I am quite familiar with it.