10-18-2021, 02:41 PM
(05-09-2021, 03:00 PM)jro Wrote:
- 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 customisations?
- Which customisations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver?
1. Yes. There have been...hiccups along the way, but these days the reliability seems to be very good.
2. UBports. I started with that, and have tried mobian phosh, manjaro phosh, manjaro plasma mobile, postmarketos. I prefer UBports by a large margin. They were first out of the gate, fell behind the others for a while, but when I returned to it a month ago, I found it had matured considerably. Phosh seems capable, but it is slow -- even when installed on the emmc -- and I don't like it's aesthetics. Manjaro/Plasma is very nice, but still a little unpolished. I used it for several months as well, before returning to UBports and being surprised how smooth it has gotten.
3. UBports/lomiri honestly, I wasn't a Unity guy on the desktop, but this interface is perfect for the smartphone.
4. basic functionality -- GPS isn't always accurate.
5. None.