05-10-2021, 11:42 AM
(05-09-2021, 03:00 PM)jro Wrote:
- Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver?
- If yes: What distribution do you use?
- Which desktop environment/interface do you use?
- Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need or is something missing?
- Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third party applications or customisations?
- Which customisations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver?
Hi, yes, I would like to use it as a daily driver but as you/others have said, I don't feel it's up to real world tasks at the moment.
I bought it in order to support the project and idea as a whole so that hopefully we can move away from the closed source duopoly of the Google/Apple mobile world. I hope it does do that and ushers in new development for these Linux mobile platforms.
I have to say though that it feels a bit of a waste having it lying around - I'm no coder and it could be better used by someone active in development.
My recent phone came with a software issue and was essentially unusable so I flashed Mobian to it which is a definite improvement but still somewhat slower than I can live with for a daily driver.
1 - No, just can't wait that long for tasks to complete
2 - Mobian/Manjaro seem the best to me but I have a softspot for Sailfish too
3 - Phosh - if that's the answer you're looking for
4 - No, camera is V poor, all apps slow to start/work/close. It just took some minutes to update the system.
5 - No, can't find anything suitable and I don't like unknown territory - not a coder by any stretch
6 - None, not seeing how it can be done. Sticking with Lineage 18.1 on a OnePlus 1 and a OnePlus 8. May even sell my Pine....
