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While I use Gnome, and like the way it looks, I feel it's a mistake on a phone unless they are doing a lot of heavy editing. While it's gotten better, the JS -
by axaxs 8y ago
While I use Gnome, and like the way it looks, I feel it's a mistake on a phone unless they are doing a lot of heavy editing. While it's gotten better, the JS -still- leaks and randomly pegs the CPU. In a phone I would imagine a battery life measured in minutes.
- zozbot123 8y agoThe in-development "Phosh" shell does not use JS at all; it is not based on GNOME Shell, even though the work on Phosh is being done as part of the GNOME project.
- michaelmrose 8y agoWithout running the exact numbers I feel like running down an entire average size cell phone battery in a few minutes would lead to everything bursting into flame. I don't think an average cell phone cpu can actually exhaust an average battery in that time frame. I feel like if it were going all out at all times for no reason it would still last a few hours. Also pretty sure this thing runs gtk apps NOT gnome which renders your analysis flawed.
- axaxs 8y agoYours and other comment did reveal my analysis was flawed, thanks for that. Re: the first two points, I really don't think so. I have a Nexus 5x that would kill the battery in around an hour if video chatting (to your point, it did get very very hot). There is also a recently revealed 'bug' in the NXP SoC being used by Librem themselves, who claimed it was killing the battery in an hour. I figure anything under 2 hours is fair game to be 'measured in minutes.'
- michaelmrose 8y agoHow old is the battery in the nexus 5? It's a 5 year old phone at this point. Daily charging could have put it through 1000 or more charge cycles at this point.