PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

Post by dougmany » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 10:15 PM UTC

swiley wrote: post #14

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.

Post by pjmlp » Thu, Dec 03, 2020, 8:18 AM UTC

squarefoot wrote: post #95

blihp wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you're used to running on a low-end Chromebook as a daily driver, no.

I'd like to be optimistic wrt future software performance on this model as well. Linux isn't Android where user apps are written to run under a virtual machine and development has to deal with the Java monoculture (Android still doesn't have low latency audio for this exact reason). However, some Python apps that on a powerful desktop run at high speed might be taxed by the Pinephone comparatively slow hardware, so n…