VLC is open source. The moment the author invites sponsors, more new forks happen. Moreover, the claim of ‘tens of million’ is likely an accumulated number. The author has but one chance to sell the software, so there wasn’t that much money at the first place.
But after all, thanks for all the effort.
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.
How good is Wacom’s Linux support?
Is the driver coming from Wacom directly or mostly developed by community?
Can I randomly buy a modern-ish Wacom digital pad, plug it in a popular distro and expect it just works?