To be absolute honest, I cannot care less about KDE or anything being stable on my phone, nor running Firefox or Retroarch. Being a phone, its most critical job is making calls and not missing any calls and messages.
If the devs - and I understand most of them are unpaid volunteers - can’t make fancy packages work stably, can’t they focus on the drivers? Can’t the Pine Phone company choose a really easy-to-work-with MODEM? Why spend hundreds of hours on an SoC with bad upstream Linux kernel support? Pine Phone needs to prioritise its to-do list items.
As I see it, Pine Phone series isn’t gaining the popularity it needs for the years to come. The more people use it, the bigger chance someone will come along to contribute.
The PinePhone and PinePhone Pro hardware is specifically designed to use chips with good mainline Linux support. Same for the modem with some additional legal constraints.
The ARM and smartphone hardware space is an incredible mess (largely due to anti-competitive behaviour of Qualcomm), so even the best effort of Pine64 to do exactly what you demand is less then ideal.
Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.
To be absolute honest, I cannot care less about KDE or anything being stable on my phone, nor running Firefox or Retroarch. Being a phone, its most critical job is making calls and not missing any calls and messages.
If the devs - and I understand most of them are unpaid volunteers - can’t make fancy packages work stably, can’t they focus on the drivers? Can’t the Pine Phone company choose a really easy-to-work-with MODEM? Why spend hundreds of hours on an SoC with bad upstream Linux kernel support? Pine Phone needs to prioritise its to-do list items.
As I see it, Pine Phone series isn’t gaining the popularity it needs for the years to come. The more people use it, the bigger chance someone will come along to contribute.
Pine64 is already doing miracles at finding easy to support hardware.
The PinePhone and PinePhone Pro hardware is specifically designed to use chips with good mainline Linux support. Same for the modem with some additional legal constraints.
The ARM and smartphone hardware space is an incredible mess (largely due to anti-competitive behaviour of Qualcomm), so even the best effort of Pine64 to do exactly what you demand is less then ideal.