PinePhone multi-distro demo image
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Re: PinePhone multi-distro demo image
#2Can anyone who has extensively tried out most of the available distros for PinePhone comment on how close any of them are to a "daily driver" state?
I suspect they're all still far from it but it'd be interesting to know which are worth keeping an eye on.
Re: PinePhone multi-distro demo image
#3Can anyone who has extensively tried out most of the available distros for PinePhone comment on how close any of them are to a "daily driver" state? I suspect they're all still far from it but it'd be interesting to know which are worth keeping an eye on.
I just received my PinePhone (not the pro one), and buying the SD card later today to try out this demo image (hence I posted it here as I came across it :) ). Can leave a status report once I've tried them out. Even from before trying it out, seems I'll try at least the updated images of the Majaro Phosh as I've heard it's the most stable and responsive one of the bunch, together with the Arch Linux Arm edition. Then we'll see what comes next.
The phone ships with Manjaro Plasma, and it's definitely not ready as a daily driver. Maybe it's the hardware, we'll see when I can try out the other OSes, but it's very laggy and very buggy (which to be fair, is exactly what I expect from a phone labeled "beta"), would not trust it as a daily driver.
Re: PinePhone multi-distro demo image
#4Can anyone who has extensively tried out most of the available distros for PinePhone comment on how close any of them are to a "daily driver" state? I suspect they're all still far from it but it'd be interesting to know which are worth keeping an eye on.
Honestly none of them will be daily driver ready, given how broken the Quectel EG25 modem is.
I would never want to, have to call emergency services with my Pinephone while the modem is down
Re: PinePhone multi-distro demo image
#5Can anyone who has extensively tried out most of the available distros for PinePhone comment on how close any of them are to a "daily driver" state? I suspect they're all still far from it but it'd be interesting to know which are worth keeping an eye on.
I have personally used Mobian and PostmarketOS as a daily driver. The "Phone" aspect works pretty well (Calls, SMS/MMS, voicemail, VoLTE, no Wifi Calling). The base model Pinephone works fine for very basic tasks, but is very slow for anything else. I would assume that most of the other "mainstream" Phone distros have a similar/the same feature parity.
I personally have moved to a Librem 5 with PureOS, mainly since it is much faster, and I like the user accessible HW kill switches. I use it for "Phone" tasks, email, web browsing, 2FA, Telegram, Signal, the occasional camera picture, and Matrix.
Re: PinePhone multi-distro demo image
#6Can anyone who has extensively tried out most of the available distros for PinePhone comment on how close any of them are to a "daily driver" state? I suspect they're all still far from it but it'd be interesting to know which are worth keeping an eye on.
Re: PinePhone multi-distro demo image
#7Can anyone who has extensively tried out most of the available distros for PinePhone comment on how close any of them are to a "daily driver" state? I suspect they're all still far from it but it'd be interesting to know which are worth keeping an eye on.
Honestly none of them will be daily driver ready, given how broken the Quectel EG25 modem is. I would never want to, have to call emergency services with my Pinephone while the modem is down
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Re: PinePhone multi-distro demo image
#8Can anyone who has extensively tried out most of the available distros for PinePhone comment on how close any of them are to a "daily driver" state? I suspect they're all still far from it but it'd be interesting to know which are worth keeping an eye on.
Honestly none of them will be daily driver ready, given how broken the Quectel EG25 modem is. I would never want to, have to call emergency services with my Pinephone while the modem is down
What exactly went wrong in your experience when you tried out the PinePhone? Did the modem randomly die without you doing anything? Or under high load it gave out sometimes? Some more details would be wonderful.
Maybe you could share if you tried it with the normal PinePhone or the PinePhone Pro as well.
Re: PinePhone multi-distro demo image
#9Can anyone who has extensively tried out most of the available distros for PinePhone comment on how close any of them are to a "daily driver" state? I suspect they're all still far from it but it'd be interesting to know which are worth keeping an eye on.
Honestly none of them will be daily driver ready, given how broken the Quectel EG25 modem is. I would never want to, have to call emergency services with my Pinephone while the modem is down
Have you tried replacing the modem firmware? The community firmware is supposed to be much more stable.
Re: PinePhone multi-distro demo image
#10Question for any US-based PinePhone aficionados: what carrier are you using (where/how did you get a SIM card)?
I recently got an ATT pre-paid SIM (that I was planning on putting in an Android phone eventually). I thought I would give it a try in the PinePhone just to see what happens and found that it would not activate... (Note that this was just a normal pre-paid SIM direct from ATT and not from some 3rd-party MNVO that might require an app to activate. When I eventually installed the SIM in the Android phone it was able to activate as expected without installing any apps).