I am daily-driving a pinephone for a few months now, and YES it is not perfect yet. YES the modem has flaws (but as-libre-as-can-be software distro for the modem exist and it’s progressing fast!). YES if what you care the most in your life is receiving SMS, then don’t rely on a pinephone as a primary device for that task.
Yet, if you’re interesting in practicing everyday mobile computing freedom, with as much libre-software as one can possibly can -on such terribly bad platform as mobile computers equipped with baseband chips!- then the pinephone is for you.
Not only you can chose in betwen dozens distros, but all of them progress every single day. Every update on some git HEAD and bleeding edge distros may incur that some stuff doesnt “work” all the time, but again: receiving SMS is not what freedom is about, is it?
So if you don’t plan on doing a bit of sysadmin every now and then, well… i guess you’ll have to wait a bit more. To me that every day effort is not only rewarding, but also an occasion to contribute to vibrant communities and give back, even just by patiently daily-driving and giving feedback, filing in issues, etc.
Daily-driving a pinephone (postmarketOS+sxmo in my case) is much more rewarding an effort to me than the free labour that most people give away every day to companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. by their practice of predatory mobile computing… even if they do get their SMS alright. ;)
I think you inspired me to dig out my pinephone and give it another try. When i tried before hardware acceleration wasnt working on most distros and everything lagged extremely, has that improved?
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.
I am daily-driving a pinephone for a few months now, and YES it is not perfect yet. YES the modem has flaws (but as-libre-as-can-be software distro for the modem exist and it’s progressing fast!). YES if what you care the most in your life is receiving SMS, then don’t rely on a pinephone as a primary device for that task.
Yet, if you’re interesting in practicing everyday mobile computing freedom, with as much libre-software as one can possibly can -on such terribly bad platform as mobile computers equipped with baseband chips!- then the pinephone is for you.
Not only you can chose in betwen dozens distros, but all of them progress every single day. Every update on some git HEAD and bleeding edge distros may incur that some stuff doesnt “work” all the time, but again: receiving SMS is not what freedom is about, is it?
So if you don’t plan on doing a bit of sysadmin every now and then, well… i guess you’ll have to wait a bit more. To me that every day effort is not only rewarding, but also an occasion to contribute to vibrant communities and give back, even just by patiently daily-driving and giving feedback, filing in issues, etc.
Daily-driving a pinephone (postmarketOS+sxmo in my case) is much more rewarding an effort to me than the free labour that most people give away every day to companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. by their practice of predatory mobile computing… even if they do get their SMS alright. ;)
I think you inspired me to dig out my pinephone and give it another try. When i tried before hardware acceleration wasnt working on most distros and everything lagged extremely, has that improved?
well sxmo with wayland is just flying! and so low on resources… unsure about hardware acceleration though…