09-03-2021, 10:49 AM
Most software for Pine devices are open source. What isn't is often actively worked toward making open source or replacing with open source alternative by the community.
Pine devices are pretty easily repair by the consumer, and often times the community will make and post teardowns to the respective devices wiki pages. Pine, however, does not offer repair services. Don't let this discourage you, though, as it's likely you could still have a device repair shop do they work for you, if you're confident you can do it yourself.
Yes and No. The phone and tablet variants of distros run the same underlying OS as desktops, but there are tweaks/packages/etc specific to the device(s), like the GUI, to make the OS useable on the device(s). Most software will run (as long as it is aarch64/arm64 compatible) you may occasionally experience scaling issues with the GUI of the software, but a lot of apps scale pretty well to the different screen sizes..
Pine devices are pretty easily repair by the consumer, and often times the community will make and post teardowns to the respective devices wiki pages. Pine, however, does not offer repair services. Don't let this discourage you, though, as it's likely you could still have a device repair shop do they work for you, if you're confident you can do it yourself.
Yes and No. The phone and tablet variants of distros run the same underlying OS as desktops, but there are tweaks/packages/etc specific to the device(s), like the GUI, to make the OS useable on the device(s). Most software will run (as long as it is aarch64/arm64 compatible) you may occasionally experience scaling issues with the GUI of the software, but a lot of apps scale pretty well to the different screen sizes..