- 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 customizations?
- Which customizations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver?
1. Unless I am missing something here, this is not a realistic question. I got the UBports edition, and for a few months, I followed the progress very closely. Then once a week, once a month, and now every few months. I upgraded last week, and no one can seriously pretend Pinephone can be used as a daily driver. No need to fight. I have debated this for months, and I know some people are convinced they use PP as a daily driver.
2. Mobian
4. Everything.
- Battery life is super short, half a day?
- Phone calls are not working correctly. The sound is metallic. Sometimes is so broken you cannot understand, or they do not understand you.
- If calling an automatic service, you can not dial options
- Some automatic services don't work with pinephone
- Modem loses connectivity (random?)
- SMS not always arrive. Both directions.
- Apps are soo slow. Firefox takes forever to launch. Websites need a long time to load. The format is not adapted to a phone size
- Exchange email not working
- No app for Dropbox
- Should I continue?
- Camara: Low picture quality, software not ready.
- VPN not working properly (at least a few months ago)
- Maybe you can use it as a daily driver if you do not need a phone.
Good things about the phone?
It is a project, and it is moving forward.
Terminal is great!
I am not following very actively. Maybe some of my points are already fixed.
I am a fan of PP!
