Bookworm

[ragreenburg]

Not every Nightly works "Out of the Box" 

It is surprising that most of them do actually just work outta the box.

I do not understand why so many people will "cry" when they try one system and it does not act like an iphone or a Google phone ?

I have almost always been able to find a working system for my "Daily Driver phone"  and I have zero skill with terminal or command line stuff.

To have a working Pine phone is not that hard,  ether you  "have some geek skills"  OR   you  "exert some serious effort"  and read a lot of  "Forum Posts."

My having multiple Pine phones does help me to a point, but I do have to spend a lot of time trying many of the different operating systems.

As the Pine Phone Store says the Pine phone is for "Developers and Enthusiasts"

I consider myself an Enthusiast !

The issue is that if you are using it as a daily driver and it stops working as expected it can lead to missed calls and texts and for many people they can't afford that. I've been using Mobian as my daily driver for about 2 months but also still lose modem connection from time to time and just the other day I did a 100+ mile trip to a place I've never been before and basically had no options for directions. The pine phone is daily driver ready if you have real patience (because it's super slow) or if you only use it for Texts/Calls (which is basically all I do). If you like to use social media or look at YouTube then you'll probably eat through your battery life super quickly and then that becomes way less viable as a daily driver.

I really like this phone but also feel like it is reasonable to a degree when people talk about how this isn't daily driver ready because for most people it just isn't.