Current state of the art OS comparison

[dukla2000]

Mobian

My banker. This was for sure the first release to be genuinely PinePhone specific as just about any others are concerned with an installed base of non-PinePhones which I figure has to compromise progress for the PP. Unlike @lat I have yet to get the flashlight working from the status bar but like @lat I have a list of applications that I immediately remove after any new installation - geary (I am using evolution), fractal (not using, am using telegram), the games and gnome-software (which I find exceeding irksome with its checks for updates which I don't need - I am happy with apt). All of which I realise is purely preference and certainly need to be read in the context that this is my first, and still preferred, starting point.

Manjaro

Never tried it on PP (Did try it once on my RockPro64 and could not get it to boot properly so moved on.)

Arch

Do love the bleeding edge - 5.10 kernel already, proper firefox rather than -ESR, telegram v2.4.7 that supports voice & video calling. Sadly for me not yet on PP - can't get my front camera functioning at the moment on any release. Did help me debug that my intermittent PP speaker was a loose connection though. The downside (with the bleeding edge, possibly) is I have a current problem with mp3 playback that means I have to download and play podcasts with mpv as lollypop can't cope.

Mobian is the release that meant I could leave my Android at home, Arch is exciting.

Overall my humble opinion is worried about phosh: so far it seems to be the easiest PP functional environment to deploy. For sure it deserves kudos for chatty and calls. But when a simple alternative emerges (I have played with Openbox and LXDE a bit on my PP but don't have enough time to get it all right - I suspect something Wayland based will be easier to slot into Mobian or Arch?) I will not be sorry to say farewell. Again hard to moan if Purism are focused on Librem rather than PP, even though arguably there are more PP running it?