New PinePhone Ready for Newbies?

[natasha]

Hello,

I'm still a newbie with Linux, though I'm successfully using a Linux laptop and I'm looking forward to my PineBook Pro.

Is the new PinePhone with Manjaro any closer to being something a non-developer newbie can order and successfully use? I like tinkering and learning, but I'm not a developer and don't have much in the way of developer chops. Still, I'm eager to be on board and learn new things, so I'm ready to go any time the PinePhone is ready to be something I can use to supplement my normal phone.

I'd be grateful for anyone's insights.

Best,

Graham

If you like tinkering and learning you should get it. My thinking is completely opposite to @Phillip Bell. You do not need to have experience with Linux, you only need the motivation to learn. Actually, probably the >90% of the pinephone shoppers are not developers for the OS. As in any Linux distro, the huge immensity they like to test, play around, but they are not developers.

This is a great 'toy' to experiment at the user level.
Everything you learned with your laptop you can try to apply it here.