06-07-2021, 04:45 AM
(05-09-2021, 03:00 PM)jro Wrote: (snip)
- 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) No(stillusing a Nokia N900 fpr phone and a lineagoOS for MicroG(no Google) tablet) At this point the N900 is a mostly dumb phone to me with telephony, tether-able 3g data, an audiobook app, a multimedia app for music in the car, SMS, a barely usable navigation app, unusable browser in the web 2.0 era, and mostly only forgotten IM protocols(hello AOL IM and Yahoo!) excluding the extremely useful Bonjur to SMS bridge app HeySMS so I can SMS over IM from my desktop machine
2) Mobian, with hopes for Maemo Leste's future
3) Phosh
4) I use the Pinephone side by side with my N900 as a phone, I cant tell if it is my unfamiliarity and small changes or rough spots and lack of personal configin the UI experience
5) sort of, I can play most multimedia files with Kodi and can even barely demo the video playback but that needs some UI tweaks to be usable, messaging IM plug-ins is still weak vs the N900 so I must use the LineageOS tablet, I cant really make the pine a primary phone without an audiobook app for mode for my commute time.
6) Since lock down has ended I have not had much personal hacking time, most hand hack customization runs the risk of crippling user experience with no easy path back if mistakes are made and so it is better for me to loose important functionality than possibly compromise core telephony and SMS as the Pine will be my daily should N900 finally fail(it is 11 years old). My opinion is hand hacks are an automatic fail for daily driver devices since the Y2K kernel 2.4.2 era Linux Sharp Zaurus and OpenMoko this is also my opinion for any daily use computing device; I want to be able to get functionality and update without having to risk a wipe and reinstall being the fastest fix. That said I also understand we are not in the daily driver stage of development for Debian Mobile so I am taking my chances.