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Since none of the other comments currently suggest it, the PinePhone can currently do this! I got the PinePhone to evaluate if it could be used as a daily phon
by capableweb 4y ago
Since none of the other comments currently suggest it, the PinePhone can currently do this!
I got the PinePhone to evaluate if it could be used as a daily phone. It cannot, it is way too early for that. But as a portable laptop? Works excellent! Not for programming big programs, but it's surprisingly effective as a terminal-on-the-go and even vim is not that difficult to use with it.
Then when I come home, I can plug it into my display+mouse+keyboard and use a normal laptop to finish off whatever I wanted, push it to my git repository and then continue from my proper desktop machine.
Another not as portable setup is the Steam Deck. Ships with a proper linux distribution and works with the same docking stuff you have for the PinePhone, so basically connect a hub that has HDMI+USB and you're up and running with a proper Linux distribution, and with better heat dissipation than the PinePhone. Not as portable obviously, but more powerful than the phone.
Both setups are pretty open, as both of them can run basically the same operating system you use on a desktop computer (non-macos obviously, and no Windows on the PinePhone)
- selfhoster11 4y agoI use my Pinebook as an on-the-go dumb SSH/web terminal with some offline text processing functionality. It's got extremely weak hardware that makes it unusable for anything else, but then, that's exactly the tasks I need to do on the go so I'm happy enough with it.