Are you using the Pinephone as your daily driver?
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(05-09-2021, 03:00 PM)jro Wrote: 1. Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver?

yes, I have even made a factory-reset of my old android device months ago and haven't touched it since then

(05-09-2021, 03:00 PM)jro Wrote: 2. If yes: What distribution do you use?

Arch Linux ARM, because I use Arch Linux on my desktop and I just love pacman and bleeding edge ...



(05-09-2021, 03:00 PM)jro Wrote: 3. Which desktop environment/interface do you use?

phosh


(05-09-2021, 03:00 PM)jro Wrote: 4. Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need or is something missing?


Support for alphanummeric passwords is missing. Tiling support would be great to have in the future. Notifications are not displayed, when the screen is locked. Messenger apps like telegram won't work when the phone is in deep sleep (I guess this will never get fixed), therefore I use deep sleep only, if I don't have the possibility to charge my phone within the next 2 or 3 hours. Alarm clock won't wake me, if I fall asleep with my bluetooth head phones.


(05-09-2021, 03:00 PM)jro Wrote: 5. Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third party applications or customisations?


I use some basic helper scripts until missing functionality is implemented like recording video by recording the screen through wl-recorder, when megapixels is running.


(05-09-2021, 03:00 PM)jro Wrote: 6. Which customisations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver?

A popular messenger app was important for me, because some people refuse to use SMS nowadays. Telegram seems to be widely accepted by the "mainstream" and luckily telegram-desktop seems to work quite well on the pinephone (telegram-purple is buggy and missing features like receiving and sending pictures). To get notifications, when telegram-desktop is closed I'm using a systemd service (borrowed from the mobian wiki) to restart telegram-desktop in tray everytime I'm closing it (because closing it through phosh will completely close it without running in the background). And to the people which insist to use whatsapp: scr** them (I refuse to use anbox on my pinephone like I refuse to use wine on the desktop).
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RE: Are you using the Pinephone as your daily driver? - by john_doe - 05-16-2021, 02:03 PM

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