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    "But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver" (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I have a "braveheart" pinephone (one of the first ones) and I just use it to play around with it's features, do distrohopping etc.)

    Most of the time i used an arch build with phosh. But actually I highly recommend postmarketOS, the installer is straight forward and let you build whatever you want. Actually I run postmarketOS edge with encrypted f2fs and gnome-mobile on it. gnome-mobile works better on newer phones but it is still usable.

    I prefer my grapheneOS phone because it is faster has more apps, apps are scaled correctly etc. Not too much battery drain...

    PS. I managed to run Thunderbird usable on pinephone, I just play around with the look&feel and now I simply have just the mail cards and I am able to interact with it without too much scaling issues.

    [–] lemmeee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    What is the current state of Gnome mobile? I thought that it wasn't finished yet. Is it as good as Phosh?

    PS. I managed to run Thunderbird usable on pinephone, I just play around with the look&feel and now I simply have just the mail cards and I am able to interact with it without too much scaling issues.

    Phosh comes with Geary. I haven't used it, but it looks like it should work well on mobile.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Phosh is definitely more polished and an attempt to make gtk mobile friendly. I actually prefer gnome-mobile for testing purposes. It's exactly like gnome-desktop and apps are opened each in an workspace, which is an impressive solution. It also needs more resources, and its not recommended for the first pinephone.

    I know about Geary. But it's not the same as a complete Thunderbird install. There I can use my smime/openpgp certs and tags are also synchronised.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Thanks! I'll probably go with a grapheneOS build next, I prefer battery life over most things for my use case. Thanks for the info!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I think Linux phones needs more time. My dream would be a phone I can plug into a docking station and work on where I stopped. Most platforms gave this dream up. But Linux is on it's way to do it. It's actually possible, thx to gtk4, libadwaita etc.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's exciting! Probably not my use-case, but certainly a functional role!