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I recently acquired a PinePhone, and Manjaro + KDE Plasma was installed out of the box. It was awful, utterly unusable. I brought it to its knees without even t
by chrismorgan 5y ago
I recently acquired a PinePhone, and Manjaro + KDE Plasma was installed out of the box. It was awful, utterly unusable. I brought it to its knees without even trying to, not even from poking and prodding with internals, just from trying to use the thing; I got it to crash outright once, and twice got its graphics stack basically bricked until manual restart, in two different ways, all in less than half an hour.
I have found postmarketOS + Phosh, Arch Linux ARM (dreemurrs) + Phosh, and Ubuntu Touch (all via https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/ https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/) to each be considerably more not-simply-broken; they’re merely—ah—“minimal”, that’s what I’ll call it. I haven’t yet tried KDE Plasma under a different distribution, but will eventually, because fairness demands it.
I know they said this stuff wasn’t ready to be a daily driver for any but serious enthusiasts, but I didn’t expect it to be quite as bad as I found it.
I’m still going to persist. I am discouraged, but not dissuaded.
- 29083011397778 5y agoI actually use my Pinephone as a weekend phone. Matrix works, so I have messaging. Calls work, so I have a phone. Maps (not turn-by-turn) work, Firefox works, the camera is slow, but works. Respectfully, your experience sounds like what I had between when I got my Pinephone and last month (or so). It has since improved for me quite dramatically.
- chrismorgan 5y agoYeah, I hadn’t run any updates when I tried it out, so it was running whatever it was shipped with in mid-May.