06-04-2021, 11:36 AM
【Pinephone 1】
・Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver? → yup.
・If yes: What distribution do you use? → Mobian
・Which desktop environment/interface do you use? → Phosh
・Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need or is something missing? → the ability to access the desktop without hacks is missing. It used to be there, but the Purism decided to take that away from us for some reason.
・Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third party applications or customisations? → I forked Phosh and re-enabled it, but it got really hard to keep up with all the good new features and bug fixes, so I gave up on it.
・Which customisations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver? → I'm using fcitx5 and mozc so I can type Japanese (which is essential if you're Japanese, don't you think?). I had to customize a whole lot back in November, but Phosh is becoming more and more usable without it as time progresses.
【Pinephone 2】
・Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver? → nope.
・If yes: What distribution do you use? → Manjaro ARM
・Which desktop environment/interface do you use? → PlaMo
・Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need or is something missing? → quite a lot missing so far. Most of the interface is still hard-coded to English. The Japanese keyboard is seemingly unable to convert characters in pretty much all apps, even though it's the exact same keyboard used in Ubuntu Touch, which can convert characters without any problems. Megapixel is making you epileptic. And the non-Kirigami and non-Libhandy apps don't scale to phone screen size at all.
・Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third party applications or customisations? → I had to install Anthy to fix the problem of keyboard getting permanently crashed after switching to Japanese input, but the Manjaro team confirmed they fixed this by having Anthy (and 2 Chinese-specific libraries) pre-installed with Manjaro ARM from now on, which is great.
・Which customisations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver? → Unlike Phosh, PlaMo still has a long way to go before I can consider it to be daily driver ready. But development really sped up over the past few months, now that more people are having a PinePhone. So I'm definitely positive that PlaMo has a bright future in sight, and could get about the same potential KDE Plasma 5 has today.
・Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver? → yup.
・If yes: What distribution do you use? → Mobian
・Which desktop environment/interface do you use? → Phosh
・Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need or is something missing? → the ability to access the desktop without hacks is missing. It used to be there, but the Purism decided to take that away from us for some reason.
・Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third party applications or customisations? → I forked Phosh and re-enabled it, but it got really hard to keep up with all the good new features and bug fixes, so I gave up on it.
・Which customisations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver? → I'm using fcitx5 and mozc so I can type Japanese (which is essential if you're Japanese, don't you think?). I had to customize a whole lot back in November, but Phosh is becoming more and more usable without it as time progresses.
【Pinephone 2】
・Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver? → nope.
・If yes: What distribution do you use? → Manjaro ARM
・Which desktop environment/interface do you use? → PlaMo
・Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need or is something missing? → quite a lot missing so far. Most of the interface is still hard-coded to English. The Japanese keyboard is seemingly unable to convert characters in pretty much all apps, even though it's the exact same keyboard used in Ubuntu Touch, which can convert characters without any problems. Megapixel is making you epileptic. And the non-Kirigami and non-Libhandy apps don't scale to phone screen size at all.
・Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third party applications or customisations? → I had to install Anthy to fix the problem of keyboard getting permanently crashed after switching to Japanese input, but the Manjaro team confirmed they fixed this by having Anthy (and 2 Chinese-specific libraries) pre-installed with Manjaro ARM from now on, which is great.
・Which customisations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver? → Unlike Phosh, PlaMo still has a long way to go before I can consider it to be daily driver ready. But development really sped up over the past few months, now that more people are having a PinePhone. So I'm definitely positive that PlaMo has a bright future in sight, and could get about the same potential KDE Plasma 5 has today.
母語は日本語ですが、英語も喋れます（ｒｙ
