Are you using the Pinephone as your daily driver?

[d0n601]

1. Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver?
    Kinda. I have for the past week, and I do on and off every month or two to see how it's progressing as one. Otherwise I'm on  UBports Nexus 5's.

2. If yes: What distribution do you use?
    Manjaro. I've tried UBports and Postmark, but I've stuck with Manjaro now the past 6 months.

3. Which desktop environment/interface do you use?
    Posh

4. Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need or is something missing?
     Yes, but buggy.
    * I've noticed many apps seem to struggle with copy/pasting text.
    * We really need an app to replace Geary, or Geary's UI to improve, it's unusable. I'd love to see Thunderbird made adaptive.
   * MMS please, I do miss group text and pictures from people. I never even know when they've tried.
   * Camera is pretty bad, it works for things like taking pictures of notes and book covers you don't want to forget, but it's not really something you'd use as an actual camera.

5. Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third party applications or customization?
   * Alarm Clock: Birdie (since the native alarm won't wake up from deep sleep).
   * See question 6 for the rest.


6. Which customization did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver?
    * A cronjob running every minute to test and reconnect the modem if it's been lost. As found here. This has been a big one.
    * Building ProtonMail bridge in no-gui mode (Geary is holding back my email a lot though).

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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.

The phone is for people that want to support the development of Linux phones. If you'd have read up on the status of what is and isn't functioning on various operating systems you'd have known what you were getting yourself into. I don't think "Beta" ever means "flawless and 100% reliable" in any way at all. It's a shame to see Pine64 getting returns when in my opinion they've been pretty up front about the device they're selling.