Are you using the Pinephone as your daily driver?
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  1. Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver?
That was my intent, but after playing with it for 24 hours I see that it simply isn't up to the task.

  1. If yes: What distribution do you use?
  1. Which desktop environment/interface do you use?
Manjaro, plasma

  1. Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need or is something missing?
It offers basic functionality; it's the reliability of the basic functionality that is at issue.  For instance, I installed Geary to check my email.  I was able to add my account, view, and delete my mail.  However when I pressed on the "menu" icon to pull up the accounts/preferences menu the menu popped up but I couldn't activate any of the menu items.  Out of the box, the modem loses connection to the carrier intermittently.

  1. Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third party applications or customisations?
  2. Which customisations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver?

No, and frankly I'm not going to try.  I emailed the pinestore today for refund instructions.  Although this is sold as a beta device, it's not.  Beta to me means that device mostly works and may need a low to moderate amount of baby sitting.  For a phone that means that out of the box, at a minimum, that incoming and outgoing voice calls, sms, and mms messages and contacts work flawlessly and are 100% reliable.

Background: I've used sailfish as my daily driver for three years, intermittently played with a lineage install, and used an Ubuntu touch phone five years ago for a couple of months before abandoning it because of frequency incompatibilities of the hardware.  Linux is my daily driver on my two laptops and desktops. We need a Linux phone but sadly this isn't it.
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RE: Are you using the Pinephone as your daily driver? - by Old_Mil - 07-07-2021, 06:36 AM

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