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Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Post by codetrotter »

wtf_is_up wrote: post #8
netol wrote: post #4

I can't believe KDE can be run in a phone, when I tried to run KDE in my desktop it always felt sluggish and unstable

I have used KDE through Kubuntu and Arch for some time after trying virtually every DE/WM out there. It's not perfect, but it's really good. I don't know how people use the stock Ubuntu DE. It's tragic.

Another Ubuntu based distro with KDE, and one that I think most people haven’t heard about, but which I am personally fond of is KDE’s own KDE Neon.

> More than ever people expect a stable desktop with cutting-edge features, all in a package which is easy to use and ready to make their own.

> KDE neon is the intersection of these needs using a stable Ubuntu long-term release as its core, packaging the hottest software fresh from the KDE Community ovens.

https://neon.kde.org/

I run this on my desktop.

Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Post by johnchristopher »

I love KDE, it's been my daily driver since I had to reinstall a desktop in a hurry and my awesome-wm config was too old.

Dolphin et gwenview are speed killers (I love Gnome's ethos but Nautilus is a snail and is missing many features I use hourly).

Can the KDE pinephone be used as handheld computer for reading PDF, taking pictures, scanning bills and invoices, media player and that kind of things ? I am not ready to rely on it for SMS and phone calls, I can't afford to miss any calls or messages.

Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Post by swiley »

johnchristopher wrote: post #13

I love KDE, it's been my daily driver since I had to reinstall a desktop in a hurry and my awesome-wm config was too old. Dolphin et gwenview are speed killers (I love Gnome's ethos but Nautilus is a snail and is missing many features I use hourly). Can the KDE pinephone be used as handheld computer for reading PDF, taking pictures, scanning bills and invoices, media player and that kind of things ? I am not ready to…

I got a landline when I switched to the pinephone and set it up to ring both. I do miss MMS messages but people who really need to get to me call or email me.

Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Post by tjpnz »

codetrotter wrote: post #11
wtf_is_up wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have used KDE through Kubuntu and Arch for some time after trying virtually every DE/WM out there. It's not perfect, but it's really good. I don't know how people use the stock Ubuntu DE. It's tragic.

Another Ubuntu based distro with KDE, and one that I think most people haven’t heard about, but which I am personally fond of is KDE’s own KDE Neon. > More than ever people expect a stable desktop with cutting-edge features, all in a package which is easy to use and ready to make their own. > KDE neon is the intersection of these needs using a stable Ubuntu long-term release as its core, packaging the hottest softwar…

I normally find the screenshots page fascinating when perusing new distros but theirs 404s.

Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Post by kop316 »

oriesdan wrote: post #9

For the record, I received yesterday the new mainboard that will be in those phones to replace the one of my pinephone UBport edition. The boost in RAM (3gb instead of 2gb) does the trick for me, allowing to use firefox. Not to the point that the experience is even close to android, but at least usable (before that, I used elinks on the phone). The system I use (mobian/phosh) still feels sluggish, but I suspect it's…

> It's especially interesting because someone from Plasma mobile team told on HN the other day that they support MMS.

I'm curious about this too, as I explicitly tried plasma mobile on several distros (PostmarketOS, Manjaro, KDE Neon), and MMS did not work for me at all. It seems to work on the ofono stack, which seems to be closer to supporting MMS versus ModemManger + Chatty, but I'd love to hear from that same person again to hear their set up.

Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Post by tannhaeuser »

wtf_is_up wrote: post #8
netol wrote: post #4

I can't believe KDE can be run in a phone, when I tried to run KDE in my desktop it always felt sluggish and unstable

I have used KDE through Kubuntu and Arch for some time after trying virtually every DE/WM out there. It's not perfect, but it's really good. I don't know how people use the stock Ubuntu DE. It's tragic.

I'm using Ubuntu+gnome in the hope integration issues have been worked out faster compared to Ubuntu with an alternate DE that just isn't exposed as much, and that'll give me just trouble and less info on askubuntu.com etc. But since gnome doesn't cut it for me, I'm going to switch distros alltogether anyway. OpenSuse or something else having KDE as preferred DE? Don't know yet; would be cool to have a mainstream systemd-less distro with KDE.

Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Post by swiley »

oriesdan wrote: post #9

For the record, I received yesterday the new mainboard that will be in those phones to replace the one of my pinephone UBport edition. The boost in RAM (3gb instead of 2gb) does the trick for me, allowing to use firefox. Not to the point that the experience is even close to android, but at least usable (before that, I used elinks on the phone). The system I use (mobian/phosh) still feels sluggish, but I suspect it's…

Supposedly improvements in hardware acceleration have changed this but IME a window manager with no compositing is way faster than phosh. I use fluxbox and on that firefox scrolls in real time for example.

Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Post by luc79 »

iagovar wrote: post #7

OT: Is Pinebook worth it to RDP with remmina? I'm currently using a fanless 13.5" Acer B115m but It's getting old and deteriorated (the screen plastic is peeling off...). I've been trying to find a replacement, but with better screen, which my main complaint about the B115m (I use it mainly outdoors with 4g, I need brightness), but most laptops use fans, which I'm trying to avoid. Had no luck in the <500€ range.

I've been using the Pinebook pro for that since June and it works flawless

Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Post by toyg »

codetrotter wrote: post #11
wtf_is_up wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have used KDE through Kubuntu and Arch for some time after trying virtually every DE/WM out there. It's not perfect, but it's really good. I don't know how people use the stock Ubuntu DE. It's tragic.

Another Ubuntu based distro with KDE, and one that I think most people haven’t heard about, but which I am personally fond of is KDE’s own KDE Neon. > More than ever people expect a stable desktop with cutting-edge features, all in a package which is easy to use and ready to make their own. > KDE neon is the intersection of these needs using a stable Ubuntu long-term release as its core, packaging the hottest softwar…

I wish KDENeon was around when I was kde-crazy, back in 3.x/4.x times. Finding a distro that was both reliable and able to run nightly builds of KDE apps was really really difficult. Despite all efforts of some outstanding maintainers, Kubuntu always felt like a hack, with unavoidable GNOME stuff popping out all over the place.

I've tried Neon in virtualbox and it looks nice and consistent. Performance wasn't great but that's more or less a given under VirtualBox. I might give it a go on my next laptop.

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