I've had quite a similar experience; having a Pinephone for about 18 months. As the article mentions, many things are nice and familiar when we have a normal Li

I've had quite a similar experience; having a Pinephone for about 18 months. As the article mentions, many things are nice and familiar when we have a normal Linux stack, like cron jobs, bash scripting, SSH, etc. I can't actually relate to e.g. the Android comparisons, since prior to my PinePhone I was running Debian on an OpenMoko Freerunner (since 2008, before Android was released!). The article mentions the "convergence" dongle and keyboard case, both of which I have: The convergence dongle is a great idea, but I can't quite get it to work. In particular, I can't get power at the same time as peripherals; so any time I'm using a keyboard+mouse+monitor the phone's battery is quickly draining. The USBC connection is also annoyingly loose, compared to another dongle I've got (although that doesn't have power passthrough at all). The keyboard case is certainly bulky, but I don't mind; and the extra battery life would consistently last all day unplugged. Unfortunately, it stopped charging a while ago, and I'm not sure why; maybe a software update, maybe I blew the charging circuitry by connecting the wrong port (the manual warns not to do this!) The keyboard is pretty pleasant to use, either hand-held with two thumbs, or "properly" on a flat surface. I've completely disabled the on-screen keyboard, so using the phone feels less claustrophobic. I can't imagine using Emacs with an on-screen keyboard, but with the keyboard case it's great. The keyboard provides an extra USBC port for charging, which could solve my issue with the convergence dongle: have power plugged into the keyboard, and the dongle+peripherals into the phone. Unfortunately, they don't both work at the same time. Hopefully this could be hacked around in software, but kernel/firmware hacking is still a bit beyond me :( As for OS: I've been using the supplied Manjaro. I've managed to boot NixOS Mobile on an SD card, but only as far as the TTY login prompt ;)